Brainy Quote of the Day

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Observation of the Antimater Helium 4 nucleus...

Image Credit: Physics Today Blog

(Brookhaven National Laboratory) "The antimatter helium-4 nucleus (4He),which known as the anti-α (α), has not been observed before. Although the α particle was identified a century ago by Rutherford and is present in cosmic radiation at the 10% level. The STAR Collaboration report the observation of the antimatter helium-4 nucleus, the heaviest observed antinucleus."

The STAR Experiment - researching Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD): http://www.star.bnl.gov/
The Brookhaven National Laboratory Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/
Andrew Zimmeran Jones: About Quarks Primer

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