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...success came in part from work Gabrielse had already done. He said that many of the devices and techniques used by ATHENA to create the anti-hydrogen—including the football field-sized machine used to trap and merge antiprotons and positrons—had been developed by ATRAP in years earlier...
...also said that ATRAP and ATHENA experiments differed in several notable ways, including in methods of detecting the anti-hydrogen after creation and in the quantity of positrons used...
Gabrielse said that ATRAP had begun its anti-matter experimentation long before ATHENA...
...Because ATRAP had been foremost in many technological innovations for the project, according to Gabrielse, it had been seen as the clear leader in anti-matter resarch—until Sept...
...When ATRAP members are not working in at CERN alongside ATHENA, they are at Harvard, creating, slowing, and studying positrons...