{"id":325915,"date":"2024-01-09T09:38:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T08:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=325915"},"modified":"2024-01-09T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T08:39:49","slug":"nature-communications-publishes-research-by-jagiellonian-university-physicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/nature-communications-publishes-research-by-jagiellonian-university-physicists\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nature Communications&#8217; publishes research by Jagiellonian University physicists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The journal &#8216;Nature Communications&#8217; has published the result of the world&#8217;s most accurate test of the symmetry between matter and antimatter in a positronium atom performed by the J-PET Team led by Professor Pawe\u0142 Moskal from the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science at the Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Krakow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;At the UJ, we designed and built a prototype of the world&#8217;s first positron emission tomograph operating with plastic scintillators&#8221;, says Prof Pawe\u0142 Moskal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The physicist from the Jagiellonian University adds that preliminary tests carried out demonstrate the ability of the prototype to measure the decay of positronium atoms into photons. &#8216;We have collected the first data and tested the symmetry between matter and antimatter with a precision several times better than that obtained in previous experiments&#8217;, states Prof Moskal, who emphasises that the main outcome of the project will be a deeper understanding of matter in the Universe and the electromagnetic interactions responsible for the existence of atoms, molecules and ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-44340-6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-44340-6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journal &#8216;Nature Communications&#8217; has published the result of the world&#8217;s most accurate test of the symmetry between matter and antimatter in a positronium atom performed by the J-PET Team led by Professor Pawe\u0142 Moskal from the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science at the Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Krakow.\u00a0 &#8220;At the UJ, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":325835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325926,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325915\/revisions\/325926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}