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fsh on May 22, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe

Anti-hydrogen is routinely trapped in magnetic traps at CERN.

kadoban on May 22, 2025 [–]

If anyone is curious how, I think this is vaguely the idea: https://alpha.web.cern.ch/science/2-trapping-antihydrogen

tl;dr: strong magnetic fields in a certain configuration since in a strong enough field anti-hydrogen acts like little bar magnets.

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