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Ephemeral antimatter atoms pinned down in milestone laser test

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Ability to do spectroscopy on antihydrogen may provide new test of fundamental physics.

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Castelvecchi, D. Ephemeral antimatter atoms pinned down in milestone laser test. Nature (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.21193

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