Positrons, the anti-matters of electrons, can now be accelerated

The latest study conducted by the physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, L.A., just proved that anti-matters do exist.

They said they’ve come up with a novel way of crashing — or smashing — subatomic particles into each other. “Smashing,” the physicists said, is done in to study the subatomic particles that make up the essential components of the universe.

Their previous work on Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests, or FACET, has recently proven that enhancing the energy of charged particles by encouraging to surf a wave of plasma works well for electrons. The success of the study convinced them that it could give positrons, the so-called anti-matters of electrons, the same result.

"Together with our previous achievement, the new study is a very important step toward making smaller, less expensive next-generation electron-positron colliders. FACET is the only place in the world where we can accelerate positrons and electrons with this method," wrote SLAC's Mark Hogan, co-author of the study published on online journal Nature.

According to them, they needed particle accelerators six miles long or more, with the aid of current accelerator technology, to see of the same method would work for the anti-matter.

This “novel way” involves enhancing an energy of a particle beam in a relatively short distance that would allow them to observe both electrons and its anti-matter counterparts with smaller accelerators. Here, a concentrated group of electrons is fired into an ionised gas, or plasma, which would pave the way for the creation of a phenomenon called the “wake.” This becomes a force that help accelerate a new group of electrons, which, in essence, is basically “riding the wave” of plasma.

However, in the case of replicating it with positrons, as doing the same with anti-matters introduces a high possibility of a weaker second wave, the physicists did a little tweaking. For positrons, a single, carefully shaped group of positrons is fired into the first wave so that it could create a next wave that is focused on shape, which is essential in its continuous acceleration.

“In this stable state, about 1 billion positrons gained 5 billion electronvolts of energy over a short distance of only 1.3 meters,” said lead author Sébastien Corde, of France’s Ecole Polytechnique, in a statement on the study’s success.

This new discovery on anti-matters came weeks after the astronomy world was shaken by the news that the first telescope capable of detecting anti-matters has been invented and would soon hit the global market.

The Santilli Telescope, which is developed by Dr. Rugerro Maria Santilli for Florida-based firm Thunder Energies Corporation (OTCQB: TNRG ) , has successfully invalidated early notions on anti-matters’ non-existence.

What made the discovery more groundbreaking from a scientific perspective is that anti-matters’ existence has been widely dismissed by modern greats such as Galileo, Newton and Einstein, saying that it is difficult to prove if such undetectable particle really existed.

However, many scientists believe that the advancements in the anti-matter research segment —say, the commercialisation of the Santilli Telescope and the development of newer plasma wake for anti-matters — could radically introduce significant changes in science.

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