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ATHENA Experiment
ATHENA Experiment
Antiproton decelerator
(AD)
AD experiments
experiments
antiprotons
spectroscopy
ATHENA, also known as the AD-1 experiment, was an antimatter research project at
the Antiproton Decelerator at CERN, Geneva. In August 2002, it was the first
experiment to produce 50,000 low-energy antihydrogen atoms, as reported in Nature.[1]
In 2005, ATHENA was disbanded and many of the former members of the research
[2]