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Science 15 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5597, pp. 1327 - 1328
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5597.1327
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ANTIMATTER:
Antihydrogen Rivals Enter the Stretch

Charles Seife

Two rival teams are hot on the trail of antihydrogen, the antimatter doppelgänger of the simplest element, hydrogen. Within a month, each announced that it had created tens of thousands of "antiatoms" cold and slow-moving enough to be studied. The results marked the first surge forward in a race to measure antihydrogen's spectrum--a discovery that could rattle the foundations of physics and will likely net a Nobel Prize for whichever team gets there first. Not surprisingly, the competition is intense.

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