What's the matter?
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Research on matter and anti-matter should progress with the opening of two machines. One is the B-factory at Palo Alto's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and the other is at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, near Tokyo, Japan. The factories will produce particles called mesons, made of two quarks, or subatomic particles. The way in which these particles decay is of interest to scientists since it can shed light on matter and anti-matter.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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How to build a B-factory
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Particle-physics machines can produced particles with short lives, like mesons. B-factories use anti-electrons and electrons as raw materials and collisions produce B-mesons with their anti-particles. US researchers have developed a machine that is likely to be more reliable in producing collisions than the Japanese project. Detectors are used and they permit operators to assess the type of particle that collisions have given rise to.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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Cue the qubits: quantum computing
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The idea of a quantum computer is welcomed by scientists since it can perform multiple calculations at one time, but such a computer is not as stable as the classical computer. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy may make the quantum computer more stable.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1997
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