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| nimcha |
 Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:54 pm |
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Does anyone know roughly what the world's current antimatter
production capability is? I'm reading an older report that talks
about 'when the Main Injector is installed at CERN, it will be able to
produce 14 ng of antiprotons annually,' and this will improve by a
factor of 10 when the new Recycler Ring is built...
I think the report was written in 1997, so obviously some improvements
will have been made since then. Does anyone know where I could find
the current numbers?
Thanks,
George |
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| bz |
| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:54 pm |
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nimcha <nimcha@NO.uga.SPAM.edu> wrote in
news:h79v319otk8evlcon3scuc6v5vvs6ch968@4ax.com:
Quote: Does anyone know roughly what the world's current antimatter
production capability is? I'm reading an older report that talks
about 'when the Main Injector is installed at CERN, it will be able to
produce 14 ng of antiprotons annually,' and this will improve by a
factor of 10 when the new Recycler Ring is built...
I think the report was written in 1997, so obviously some improvements
will have been made since then. Does anyone know where I could find
the current numbers?
Production isn't the main problem. Storage is. The danged stuff keeps
disappearing in puffs of energy every time I try to pick it up.
:)
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bz
please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.
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| Uncle Al |
| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:44 pm |
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nimcha wrote:
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Does anyone know roughly what the world's current antimatter
production capability is?
Does that include planetary potassium-40 positron decay?
Quote: I'm reading an older report that talks
about 'when the Main Injector is installed at CERN, it will be able to
produce 14 ng of antiprotons annually,' and this will improve by a
factor of 10 when the new Recycler Ring is built...
I think the report was written in 1997, so obviously some improvements
will have been made since then. Does anyone know where I could find
the current numbers?
14 ng/year? What difference would a factor of 100 make? The total
storage over a period of a year is zero plus an epsilon.
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Uncle Al
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