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ALPHA Experiment Cools Antimatter with Lasers

ALPHA Experiment Cools Antimatter with Lasers

The ALPHA experiment, including Professor Scott Menary and grad student Darij Starko, is the first to use lasers to cool a sample of antimatter to near absolute zero. Check out some of the media coverage below or read the Nature paper. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antimatter-laser-1.5970894 https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2021/03/31/york-researchers-part-of-international-effort-to-cool-a-sample-of-antimatter-to-near-absolute-zero/?utm_source=YFile_Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Top-Stories&utm_campaign=yfile https://www.wired.com/story/physicists-learn-to-superfreeze-antimatter-hint-pew-pew/

York graduate student receives Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship

York graduate student receives Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship

The graduate student Elder Pinzon Guerra (Physics and Astronomy, supervised by Sampa Bhadra) has been awarded a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship for Research in Japan (Short-Term). The fellowship will support Elder for three months to work on his PhD thesis project with Prof. Masashi Yokoyama and Prof. Mark Hartz at The University of […]