This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at El Laboratorio Europeo de Física está un paso más cerca de desvelar el secreto de la 'Antimateria'

The European Laboratory of physics is a step closer to unveil the secret of the 'antimatter'

09/12/2010

December 9, 2010.

Universal physics dedicated much effort to the subject of matter and antimatter, above all to know what happened to the antimatter that was also generated in the instant after the big bang. However, despite all the progress that has been made in 70 years it is not until now that the most important steps have been undertaken. If the Laboratory European of particle physics (Cern) won for the first time for something less than a month producing 38 antihydrogen atoms - for a tenth of a second if hydrogen consists of a proton and an electron, its opposite is an Antiproton and a positron-the same European agency recently announced that it had achieved a new and important step in the development of techniques for comparing matter and antimatter, and thus reveal some of the best kept secrets of the universe.

As recorded in a statement provided by the above-mentioned Centre, the objective is to produce the greatest possible number of atoms of antihydrogen and keep them separated from the matter the time out to study them. The revolutionary experiment that could achieve this is the so-called 'Asacusa', which has developed an innovative technique to study the antimatter thanks to a magnetic particle trap that has managed to produce a significant amount of atoms of antihydrogen in flight.

"With all these different methods to produce antihydrogen, the matter will not take to reveal its secrets" explained Yasunori Yamazaki, one of those responsible for investigation of the Asacusa. This experiment is complementary to the 'Alpha' and the 'Atrap', which are also developed in the European laboratory. In all cases, the aim is to create sufficient quantities of antimatter in order to examine it and compare it to the field which, under normal conditions, is annihilated.