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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

To achieve this goal, Cern scientists have built transportable devices containing superconducting magnets, cryogenic cooling systems and vacuum chambers where antiprotons can be trapped, avoiding contact with normal matter, and carried on seven-tonne lorries.

Antiprotons. So basically an anti-hydrogen ion.