How did physists find anti-matter if they were using a particle accelerator to collide matter?
Did the anti-matter exist within the particle of matter and the collision just pushed it out? Or did the collision somehow make the anti-matter particle out of the energy in the reaction?
Wouldn't the anti-matter particle cause a huge burst of energy once it hit its matter counterpart?
The anti-particle of an electron (called a positron) is emitted in the positive beta decay of the Sodium-22 isotope. It exists in trace quantities on earth and has been know for years. Also PET scans or Positron Emission Tomography uses the a radioisotope with the same positive beta decay. Usually antiparticles are produced in the radioactive decay of isotopes in nature. In particle colliders, in the moment of the particle collision, the colliding particles have more wave property interaction than elastic collision type interaction. When the wave character collapses back into particles with various characteristics (ie masses, spins, angular momentum, charge, kinetic energies, ect...) the only difference between matter and anti-matter is that anti-particles equivalent in mass but opposite in charge to their matter counterpart.
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