How to Use antiproton in a Sentence

antiproton

noun
  • But to get them there, those antiprotons will have to avoid touching anything on the way.
    — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The team stored antiprotons in the system for up to two weeks without loss and transported them for about four hours.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Ninety-two antiprotons were transported six miles by truck.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • Electrons have positrons, which are anti-electrons, while protons have antiprotons.
    — Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • It’s billed as a unique machine that produces low-energy antiprotons for the study of antimatter.
    — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Some scenes, like a fight that takes place in an antiproton river in the pocket universe, feel almost more like a cartoon than live-action, and not in a good way.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • At 2pm today, in a field not far from downtown Chicago, a final proton will smash into an antiproton.
    — Daniel Holz, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2011
  • Researchers create antiprotons by smashing regular protons at close to the speed of light against a block made of a metal called iridium.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Hundreds of billions of protons and antiprotons were accelerated close to the speed of light and then smashed together.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The trap confined 92 antiprotons in a vacuum, as any contact with air would annihilate them.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The next step, Ulmer said, is to transport a larger number of antiprotons and build the infrastructure required to study them elsewhere.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Protons and antiprotons have electric charge—the proton’s charge is positive, and the antiproton’s is negative.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 July 2025
  • The antiprotons were then taken back to the lab in Tuesday's final stage that concluded with applause and a bottle of Champagne.
    — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • So an anti-electron would have a positive instead of a negative charge while an antiproton would have a negative instead of a positive charge.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This device is capable of holding antiprotons in a near-perfect vacuum using magnetic and electric fields.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The dance between positron and antiproton in antihydrogen should exactly follow that of the electron and proton in hydrogen.
    — Sophia Chen, Wired, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Obertelli and his colleagues plan to use magnetic and electric fields to trap a cloud of antiprotons within a vacuum (see ‘Antimatter to go’).
    — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2018
  • In early tests, the device successfully captured either electrons or calcium ions—proxies for positrons and antiprotons—in the same setup.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
  • On Tuesday the physicists loaded 92 antiprotons—the antimatter version of protons—into a truck and drove them around for about an hour and a half.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The particles needed to fulfil this goal, like antiprotons and positrons, behave so differently that trapping them in the same place has been nearly impossible.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The antiproton then floats out of the trap and into a surrounding array of particle detectors, in which it is annihilated and produces a subatomic blast.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Likewise, while protons are positively charged, antiprotons are negatively charged.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Heavier particles like antiprotons (or calcium ions) prefer much slower megahertz (MHz) fields.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
  • This separation—called the hyperfine split—is caused by interactions between the antiproton and the helium nucleus.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The mass in Tuesday's test — slightly less than that of about 100 hydrogen atoms — is so little, experts say, that the worst possible outcome was the loss of the antiprotons.
    — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Unfortunately, the hardware used to capture antiprotons also produces interference that limits the precision with which measurements can be made.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025
  • Colliding protons and antiprotons, the Tevratron's DZero group found more matter than antimatter.
    — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Usually, antiprotons are stored in large machines called Penning traps that weigh several tons, so the BASE team constructed a portable version that could fit on a truck.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But in reality, antimatter is really no different than regular matter, except that antimatter atoms have positrons instead of electrons and antiprotons instead of protons.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2017
  • There's a facility being built in Düsseldorf, Germany, for antiproton experiments, nearly 800 kilometers and eight hours away by road.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025

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