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Science: China launches antimatter lab
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-27 14:41
As Dan Brown's new sci-fi thriller Angels and Demons, which deals with
subject of antimatter, tops China's bestseller lists, a project to search for
the existence of the mysterious substance among primary cosmic rays has been
officially launched in China.
In Southeast University in Nanjing, capital of eastern Jiangsu Province, the
Thursday formal operation of China's sole laboratory with an AMS (Alpha Magnetic
Spectrometer) detector, called AMS-C, marked a significant move forward in
China's search for antimatter.
"During the trial period, the AMS lab has detected signs of energetic
particles from outer space which can help our understanding of the mysteries of
astrophysics," said Nobel Laureate physicist Samuel Chao Chang Ting, who leads
the international AMS experiment.
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