{"id":32284,"date":"2016-11-29T07:51:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/a-new-ring-to-slow-down-antimatter"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:00:52","slug":"a-new-ring-to-slow-down-antimatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/a-new-ring-to-slow-down-antimatter","title":{"rendered":"A new ring to slow down antimatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-ring-to-slow-down-antimatter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You could mistake <a href=\"http:\/\/home.cern\/about\/accelerators\/antiproton-decelerator\">ELENA<\/a> for a miniature accelerator. But, unlike most accelerators, it\u2019s housed in a hangar and you can take it all in in just a single glance. The biggest difference though, is that it doesn\u2019t accelerate particles, but decelerates them.<\/p>\n<p>CERN\u2019s brand-new machine measures just 30 metres in circumference and has just begun its first tests with beam.<\/p>\n<p>The ELENA (Extra Low ENergy Antiproton) deceleration ring will be connected to the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.cern\/about\/accelerators\/antiproton-decelerator\">Antiproton Decelerator<\/a> (AD), which has been in service since 2000. The AD is a unique facility that enables the study of <a href=\"http:\/\/home.cern\/topics\/antimatter\">antimatter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.cern\/about\/updates\/2016\/11\/new-ring-slow-down-antimatter?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=cernsm\">http:\/\/home.cern\/about\/updates\/2016\/11\/new-ring-slow-down-an...ign=cernsm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could mistake ELENA for a miniature accelerator. But, unlike most accelerators, it\u2019s housed in a hangar and you can take it all in in just a single glance. The biggest difference though, is that it doesn\u2019t accelerate particles, but decelerates them. CERN\u2019s brand-new machine measures just 30 metres in circumference and has just begun [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32284","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65681,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32284\/revisions\/65681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}