antideuteron


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an·ti·deu·ter·on

 (ăn′tē-do͞o′tə-rŏn′, -dyo͞o′-, ăn′tī-)
n.
The antimatter equivalent of deuteron.
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Yin, Expectations of the cosmic antideuteron flux, 2018, https://inspirehep.net/record/1645899.
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The surprisingly large quantities of antiparticles, such as antiprotons and antideuterons, generated in these interactions also suggested an origin in a quark soup of some sort.
Ting and Lederman managed to observe bound pairs of antimatter particles, called antideuterons, in a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.