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European researchers preparing experiment to measure the neutron's electric dipole moment By: Gabriel Gache, Science News Editor Why is there so much matter in the universe, but hardly any antimatter, and where do matter and antimatter actually come from? These are the questions pursued by a team of researchers from the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, currently preparing to carry out an experiment destined to measure the electrical dipole moment of neutrons. The magnitude of the electrical dipole is a measure to the electric charge distribution inside a sub-atomic particle. Revealing the value of this constant could open the way to showing the different physical properties of matter and antimatter, as well as the cause for the asymmetry between the two. But first, the facility where the experiment will be conducted must... [read full story]
