{"id":120136,"date":"2021-03-02T20:23:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T04:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/a-decades-long-quest-reveals-new-details-of-antimatter"},"modified":"2021-03-02T20:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T04:23:25","slug":"a-decades-long-quest-reveals-new-details-of-antimatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/a-decades-long-quest-reveals-new-details-of-antimatter","title":{"rendered":"A Decades-Long Quest Reveals New Details of Antimatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-decades-long-quest-reveals-new-details-of-antimatter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Planned future experiments will help researchers choose between the two pictures. But whichever model is right, SeaQuest\u2019s hard data about the proton\u2019s inner antimatter will be immediately useful, especially for physicists who smash protons together at nearly light speed in Europe\u2019s Large Hadron Collider. When they know exactly what\u2019s in the colliding objects, they can better piece through the collision debris looking for evidence of new particles or effects. Juan Rojo of VU University Amsterdam, who helps analyze LHC data, said the SeaQuest measurement \u201ccould have a big impact\u201d on the search for new physics, which is currently \u201climited by our knowledge of the proton structure, in particular of its antimatter content.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Twenty years ago, physicists began investigating a mysterious asymmetry inside the proton. Their results show how antimatter helps stabilize every atom\u2019s core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned future experiments will help researchers choose between the two pictures. But whichever model is right, SeaQuest\u2019s hard data about the proton\u2019s inner antimatter will be immediately useful, especially for physicists who smash protons together at nearly light speed in Europe\u2019s Large Hadron Collider. When they know exactly what\u2019s in the colliding objects, they can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}