Positron physics examines the behaviour of the positron, the electron’s antiparticle, and its interactions with matter. Central to this field is the study of annihilation processes, whereby positrons ...

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator marked a sharp turn in the ...

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator has reshaped the global race ...

Positron, the antiparticle of electron, has the same mass and charge as that of an electron but with the sign flipped for the charge. It is an attractive particle for scientists because the use of ...

Flying high: The $1.5bn Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station. (Courtesy: NASA) The international team running the $1.5bn Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) has announced it ...

This summer saw the University of Bristol hold the 16th triennial International Conference on Positron Annihilation (ICPA-16) with attendance from over 200 people from 28 different countries. Bristol ...

Working with lasers: The set-up used to create positron beams at the University of Michigan. Physicist Will Schumaker of the University of Michigan is in the background. (Courtesy: University of ...

In the hunt for new physics beyond the Standard Model, scientists are now looking closely at an unusual class of particle interactions called neutral triple gauge couplings (nTGCs). These interactions ...

Nicola Tesla was an inconvenient man for some, and his 150th birthday was last Monday. Why should you care? Here's a clue, then Professor Igor Bray in Perth. [music: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, AC/DC ...

For the first time, scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) have succeeded in losslessly guiding positrons, the antiparticles of ...