Famous Einstein equation used to create matter from light for first time
Two colliding light particles were used to create a matter-antimatter pair
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Two colliding light particles were used to create a matter-antimatter pair
E-Mail IMAGE: A picture of the AFP detector taken during its installation in the LHC tunnel. The quartz time-of-flight detector is on the left, the silicon pixel detector - on the right.... view more Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Cracow, 18 February 2021 Creation of matter in an interaction of two photons belongs to a class of very rare phenomena. From the data of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, collected with the new AFP proton detectors at the highest energies available to-date, a more accurate - and more interesting - picture of the phenomena occurring during photon collisions is em...