{"id":127,"date":"2007-11-19T00:25:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T05:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2007-11-19T00:26:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T05:26:08","slug":"the-heterohydrogen-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"The heterohydrogen question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/kinetic-energy-operator.jpg\" title=\"Kinetic energy operator\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/kinetic-energy-operator.jpg\" alt=\"Kinetic energy operator\" height=\"196\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can hydrogen and and antihydrogen bind to form a stable molecule?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the question that a growing number of particlebods have been scratchin&#8217; their  eggs over. And it ain&#8217;t merely hypothetical, neither.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few years, engineers at CERN in Switzerland and Fermilab near Chicago have been a-tinkerin&#8217; and a-toyin&#8217; with their particle traps and dramatically improved the numbers of antiprotons they can round up. All of a sudden, physicists have the building (and anti-building) blocks with which to test the question.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they ain&#8217;t got round to it yet which has left the field wide open to theorists. This week, it&#8217;s the turn  of Mohamed Assad Abdel-Raouf at the United Arab Emirates University  in Al Ain City. He&#8217;s run the first computations to  calculate the bindin&#8217; energies of so-called heterohydrogens (presumably ordinary homohydrogen is illegal in most middle eastern states).<\/p>\n<p>He reckons various molecules of hydrogen and antihydrogen are possible. In particular, them eggs at CERN and Fermilab should keep &#8217;em peeled for antihydrogen-hydrogen, antihydrogen-deuterium and antihydrogen-tritium, says the man.<\/p>\n<p>Go to it fellas.<\/p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0711.2283\">arxiv.org\/abs\/0711.2283<\/a>: Possible Coexistence of Antihydrogen with Hydrogen, Deuterium and Tritium Atoms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can hydrogen and and antihydrogen bind to form a stable molecule? That&#8217;s the question that a growing number of particlebods have been scratchin&#8217; their eggs over. And it ain&#8217;t merely hypothetical, neither. In the last few years, engineers at CERN in Switzerland and Fermilab near Chicago have been a-tinkerin&#8217; and a-toyin&#8217; with their particle traps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ant-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}