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Anti-Matter - Term Papers

Anti-Matter

Introduction
Ordinary matter has negatively charged electrons circling a positively
charged nuclei. has positively charged electrons - positrons -
orbiting a nuclei with a negative charge - anti-protons. Only anti-protons
and positrons are able to be produced at this time, but scientists in
Switzerland have begun a series of experiments which they believe will lead
to the creation of the first anti-matter element -- Anti- Hydrogen.

The Research

Early scientists often made two mistakes about anti-matter. Some
thought it had a negative mass, and would thus feel gravity as a push
rather than a pull. If this were so, the antiproton's negative mass/energy
would cancel the proton's ...

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Geneva are working on a device called the LEAR
(low energy anti-proton ring) in an attempt to slow the velocity of the
anti-protons to a billionth of their normal speeds. The slowing of the
anti-protons and positrons, which normally travel at a velocity of that
near the speed of light, is neccesary so that they have a chance of meeting
and combining into anti-hydrogen.

The problems with research in the field of anti-matter is that when
the anti-matter elements touch matter elements they annihilate each other.
The total combined mass of both elements are released in a spectacular
blast of energy. Electrons and positrons come together and vanish into
high-energy gamma rays (plus a certain number of harmless neutrinos, which
pass through whole planets without effect). Hitting ordinary matter, 1 kg
of anti-matter explodes with the force of up to 43 million tons of TNT -
as though several thousand Hiroshima bombs were detonated at once.

So how can anti-matter be stored? ...

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Added: 2/15/2006 12:55:00 PM
Category: Science & Nature
Type: Free Paper
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