Colliders spur hunt
for antimatter answers
Two quarter-billion-dollar particle
colliders—one in California and one in Japan—fire up their
beams to initiate a global race for a new physics, which may become
evident in the decays of particles known as B-mesons.
Further Readings:
1999. What's the matter? The Economist (May 8):85.
1999. How to build a B-factory. The Economist (May 8):87.
Peterson, I. 1993. Particle physics: Stanford wins a B factory. Science
News 144(Oct. 16):245.
Quinn, H.R., and M.S. Witherell. 1998. The asymmetry between matter
and antimatter. Scientific American (October):76.
Watson, A. 1998. Accelerator gets set to explore cosmic bias. Science
281(Aug. 7):764.
Weiss, P. 1999. Decays may reflect matter-antimatter rift. Science
News 155(Feb. 20):118.
Sources:
Gerard Bonneaud
SLAC Mailstop Code 17
P.O. Box 4349
Stanford, CA 94309
Tom Browder
University of Hawaii
Department of Physics and Astronomy
High Energy Physics Group
Watanbe Hall, 2505 Correa Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Kazuo Gotow
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Department of Physics
Robeson 323A
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0435
Helen R. Quinn
SLAC Mailstop Code 81
P.O. Box 4349
Stanford, CA 94309
From Science
News, Vol. 155, No. 22, May 29, 1999, p. 342.
Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
