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Scientists transport protons in trucks, paving the way for antimatter transport

BASE-STEP portable trap system. It is hoisted by a crane through the AD hall and loaded onto a truck. The team monitored all parameters during transport. Credit: CERN Antimatter may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator (AD), scientists create and trap antiprotons every day. BASE experiments can even house them for more than…