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Science 7 August 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5378, pp. 764 - 765
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5378.764
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PHYSICS:
Accelerator Gets Set to Explore Cosmic Bias

Andrew Watson

An understanding of why the universe is biased in favor of matter may have come a step closer with a burst of collisions in an accelerator called the Asymmetric B Factory. Based at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the machine collides beams of electrons with positrons to make B mesons, which offer insights into a fundamental asymmetry between matter and antimatter. On 23 July, the two rings collided particles for the first time--a critical step in the long process of getting this novel facility up and running, which should be completed early next year.

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