POSITRON EXCESS PHENOMENON

🔆POSITRON EXCESS PHENOMENON

 

✅ In the News: Researchers from the Raman Research 

Institute (RRI), Bengaluru, have resolved the mystery 

of the antimatter counterpart of the electrons called Positron and Positron Excess Phenomenon.

 

◾️About

 

✅Antimatter is the opposite of normal matter. More specifically,the

sub-atomic particles of antimatter have properties opposite those of normal matter.

 

✅For example, the electrical charge of antimatter particles is reversed.

 

✅Antimatter was created along with matter after 

the Big Bang. But in today’s universe, antimatter is 

rare. For example, Positron.

 

◾️Positron or anti-electron

 

✅A Positron is an

antimatter counterpart to an electron.

 

✅A positron has the equal or same mass as an electron.

 

✅But the electron has a Negative Electric Charge

whereas Positron has a

Positive electric Charge. 

Positron Excess

 

✅Over the years scientists observed an excess of positrons having the energy of more than 10 GeV.