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9. In what facility was the antiproton discovered?

  • Bevatron

  • Large Hadron Collider

  • Stanford Linear Accelerator

  • Hubble Telescope

Answer

The antiproton, the antiparticle of the proton, was discovered in 1955 at the Bevatron, a particle accelerator at the University of California, Berkeley. It was the first antiparticle of a baryon to be discovered, and its existence provided strong evidence for Theory of antimatter.
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