{"id":97402,"date":"2019-10-14T00:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T07:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/first-ever-double-slit-experiment-performed-with-antimatter"},"modified":"2019-10-14T00:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T07:42:59","slug":"first-ever-double-slit-experiment-performed-with-antimatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/first-ever-double-slit-experiment-performed-with-antimatter","title":{"rendered":"First Ever Double-Slit Experiment Performed with Antimatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-ever-double-slit-experiment-performed-with-antimatter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Positrons traverse two circular 2-mm-wide collimators 10.2 cm apart. The interferometer is composed of two SiN diffraction gratings with periodicity d1 and d2, respectively, separated by L1 = (118.1 \u00b1 0.2) mm. Interference fringes with d3 periodicity are expected at L2 = (576 \u00b1 5) mm. The emulsion is tilted so that the Y axis in the reference frame of the emulsion surface (X, Y) forms a 45\u00b0 angle with the y axis of the laboratory. Gamma rays (511 keV) from positron annihilation in the emulsion are monitored with a high-purity germanium (HpGe) detector for rate measurement.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of ScienceMag.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positrons traverse two circular 2-mm-wide collimators 10.2 cm apart. The interferometer is composed of two SiN diffraction gratings with periodicity d1 and d2, respectively, separated by L1 = (118.1 \u00b1 0.2) mm. Interference fringes with d3 periodicity are expected at L2 = (576 \u00b1 5) mm. The emulsion is tilted so that the Y axis [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97402","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}