Discovery of the antineutron
Descubrimiento del antineutrón
- Date
- 1956 · confidence high
- Place
- Berkeley, United States
- Credited to
- Bruce Cork, Glen Lambertson, Oreste Piccioni and William Wenzel
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
In proton-antiproton collisions produced at the Bevatron accelerator, Cork's team detects the antineutron, the antiparticle of the neutron, one year after the discovery of the antiproton.
The discovery took place one year after the antiproton (1955), at the same accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
What it led to
- Experimental confirmation of baryonic antimatter
- High-energy particle accelerator physics
- Basis for the search for heavier antinuclei