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Ulrik Egede, Professor of Physics, Monash University

Heaviest antimatter observation yet will fine-tune numbers for dark matter search

Brookhaven National Laboratory, CC BY-NC-ND

In experiments at the Brookhaven National Lab in the US, an international team of physicists has detected the heaviest “anti-nuclei” ever seen. The tiny, short-lived objects are composed of exotic antimatter particles.

The measurements of how often these entities are produced and their properties confirms our current understanding of the nature of antimatter, and will help the search for another mysterious kind of particles – dark matter – in deep space.

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