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Science: 皇冠体育app launches antimatter lab (Xinhua) Updated: 2006-03-27 14:41
As Dan Brown's new sci-fi thriller Angels and Demons, which deals with
subject of antimatter, tops 皇冠体育app's bestseller lists, a project to search for
the existence of the mysterious substance among primary cosmic rays has been
officially launched in 皇冠体育app.
In Southeast University in Nanjing, capital of eastern Jiangsu Province, the
Thursday formal operation of 皇冠体育app's sole laboratory with an AMS (Alpha Magnetic
Spectrometer) detector, called AMS-C, marked a significant move forward in
皇冠体育app's search for antimatter.
"During the trial period, the AMS lab has detected signs of energetic
particles from outer space which can help our understanding of the mysteries of
astrophysics," said Nobel Laureate physicist Samuel Chao Chang Ting, who leads
the international AMS experiment.
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