How to Use antiproton in a Sentence

antiproton

noun

• 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
• Hundreds of billions of protons and antiprotons were accelerated close to the speed of light and then smashed together.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Doing so allowed them to observe that in antihydrogen—which is composed of an antiproton and a positron, the electron’s antiparticle—jumps in energy levels known as the Lamb shift were identical to those seen in hydrogen.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2020
• Here's an example: if a proton-antiproton collision produces a top quark and an antitop particle, these will instantly decay into two weak force (W) bosons and two bottom quarks.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2019
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 31 Aug 2024