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Antiprotons can be stored pretty much indefinitely (many years) in cryogenic Penning traps. This is done by the BASE collaboration at CERN [1] who are actually neighbors of the group that the article is about.

[1] https://base.web.cern.ch/



CERN: the only place you can pop over to your neighbor to ask for a cup^H^H^Hstream of antiprotons.


I don't think they're presently operating the antiproton source, but for decades one could get them at Fermilab, too.

https://www.fnal.gov/pub/tevatron/tevatron-operation.html


Could it lead to a new storage method? Helium lasts for microseconds, perhaps other atoms can store it indefinitely. Could that enable bulk antimatter storage?

E.g. 1 mol of mercury that contains 1 mole of anti-protons and doesn't annihilate unless subjected to some extreme condition.




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