On the front page of Nature: ALPHA publishes first laser-cooling of antihydrogen!
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On February 19, 2020, ALPHA published the first investigation of the fine structure of Antihydrogen.

In 2018 the ALPHA Experiment was expanded with the addition of ALPHA-g. Look at timelapse videos to see the massive changes, from installation to beamline!

The ALPHA collaboration has for the first time observed single-photon excitation of antihydrogen atoms from the ground (1S) state to the 2P state using 121nm pulsed laser light - the so-called lyman-alpha line of the Lyman series.

Our latest breakthrough, the first detailed study of one of the hyperfine components of the 1S-2S line in trapped antihydrogen has been published in Nature and is the most precise and most accurate measurement of antimatter to date.

Following 30 years of effort by the low-energy antimatter community at CERN, the ALPHA collaboration has made seminal measurements of antihydrogen’s spectral structure in a bid to test nature’s fundamental symmetries.

Participants in ALPHA's annual collaboration meeting at CERN.

Our latest breakthrough, the first observation of the 1S-2S transition in trapped antihydrogen has been published in Nature and is the first time a spectral line has been observed in antihydrogen.

We've shut down for 2016 - see you next year!

ELENA, a new ring that will slow the Antiproton Decelerator's antiprotons down even further has now finished construction and is entering the commissioning phase. Read about it here and check out the timelapse video of the construction below. For more information, read the CERN Courier article or visit the ELENA project website.