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Because matter and antimatter annihilate each other upon contact, Gabrielse and Khabbaz isolated the antiproton in an electric and magnetic field to prevent it from touching any matter during the experiment.
The experiment indicated that antiprotons and protons do oscillate at the same frequency and thus suggests that they have the same properties.
Gabrielse and Khabbaz used a negative hydrogen ion instead of a proton in the experiment because it allowed for greater accuracy of measurement after correcting for the additional electrons of the ion.
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The physicists announced their results a fewweeks ago at a CERN conference. Gabrielse andKhabbaz have been working on this experiment forthe last two and a half years, and Gabrielse hasbeen working on similar experiments for a decade