Author: Ulrik Egede, Professor of Physics, Monash University

In experiments at the Brookhaven National Lab in the US, an international team of physicists has detected the heaviest “anti-nuclei” ever seen. The tiny, short-lived objects are composed of exotic antimatter particles. The measurements of how often these entities are produced and their properties confirms our current understanding of the nature of antimatter, and will help the search for another mysterious kind of particles – dark matter – in deep space. The results are published today in Nature. A missing mirror world The idea of antimatter is less than a century old. In 1928, British physicist Paul Dirac developed a…