Origins: CERN: World's Largest Particle Accelerator

The Heart of the Matter: Inside CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator

Place: Just outside Geneva, Cern's geography and scientists form a unique international community.

Tools: CERN's giant machines reveal the universe's tiniest particles. Follow a proton through the accelerators.

People: What inspires a physicist? Meet ome of CERN's scientists and hear what fuels their search for the secrets of matter.

Ideas: Antimatter, the Big Bang, and a particle that gives others mass: The big ideas behind CERN's big experiments.

Meet with scientists, machine operators, control-room jockies and others who make CERN a vibrant exciting location for doing science.

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Scientists Make Antimatter!
9am PDT
September 20, 2002

Cold anti-hydrogen atoms have been made, stored, and detected for the first time at ATHENA! We talked to the ATHENA team about this groundbreaking, historic event in particle physics and learned what's next.

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Cold anti-hydrogen atoms have been made, stored, and detected for the first time in an experiment at CERN.

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