GoKawiilCERN's BASE team transports trapped antiprotons by truck for first time
Researchers from the BASE Collaboration at CERN sealed 92 antiprotons inside a specialized ultrahigh-vacuum trap, then drove them 7.5 kilometers around the lab's grounds without losing them. The experiment, published in Nature, demonstrates that antimatter can survive real-world transport rather than staying confined to the site where it's produced.
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Antimatter has historically been nearly impossible to move since it annihilates on contact with ordinary matter, forcing all antimatter experiments to happen at the few facilities capable of producing it, like CERN's Antimatter Factory. If trapped antiprotons can survive road transport, it opens the door to shipping antimatter to distant labs for precision experiments, reducing the need to build costly production infrastructure everywhere research is done.
- BASE Collaboration transported 92 trapped antiprotons via truck for 7.5 km around CERN's campus
- The antiprotons remained stable inside a specialized ultrahigh-vacuum trap during the drive
- Success suggests antimatter could eventually be delivered to research facilities beyond CERN itself
Source: nature.com — Paul, 2026-09-16
Published there as: “Antimatter: coming soon to a lab near you?”
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