Scientists use laser to unlock the secrets of antimatter

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have succeeded in shining light on trapped antimatter atoms to detect whether they behave differently to regular atoms. “This is the reason CERN was created,” said Jeffrey Hangst, spokesperson for Cern’s Alpha experiment in Switzerland and professor at Aarrhus University in Denmark. Mairi Sakellariadou, professor of theoretical physics at King’s College London, said the experiment was an exciting achievement from an experimental standpoint and “confirmed the validity of the Standard Model” which is the current model to describe particles and the forces between them.