antiproton

How To Use antiproton In A Sentence

• The antiproton was produced when protons from a cyclotron were used to bombard a copper target.
• The discoverers were sure, he says, that antiprotons did indeed exist, although he doubted that they could be observed.
• Provided this problem could be solved, W and Z could be created in frontal collisions between antiprotons and protons in the new superaccelerator, SPS, at CERN. Press Release: The 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics
• The first antielectron was produced in 1932, and particle accelerators helped scientists create the first antiproton in 1955. Angels, demons and tedium « Anglican Samizdat
• Among his research papers one finds included, the discovery of neutral pions in cosmic rays (together with J. Hooper and D.T. King at Bristol University, England) and the first systematic study of antiproton annihilations (together with research groups at the University of California, Berkeley, USA). CV of Gösta Ekspong
• There are no antiprotons or antineutrons, made up from antiquarks, except for a few that physicists produce in large particle accelerators.
• Similarly the positively charged proton has a negatively charged antiparticle, the antiproton.
• Soon, we produced antiprotons in accelerators and finally, in 1995, we combined a positron with an antiproton to produce an antimatter atom.
• Antimatter is matter composed of antiparticles, such as positrons, antineutrons and antiprotons.
• Antimatter also exists and so there is an antiproton, an antineutron and an antielectron often called the positron.