La Antimateria

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of antimatter, covering its nature, production, detection, the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem, and its applications in medicine and technology.

Contribution

It offers a concise summary of antimatter concepts, experiments at CERN, and its societal applications, highlighting recent scientific and technological developments.

Findings

Antimatter is produced and studied at CERN.

The matter-antimatter asymmetry remains an unresolved problem.

Antimatter has important medical and technological applications.

Abstract

Antimatter is one of the most fascinating aspects of Particle Physics and one of the most unknown ones too. In this article we concisely explain what is antimatter and its distinction between primordial and secondary, how it is produced, where it can be found, the experiments carried out at CERN to create and analyze antiatoms, the problem of the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the medical and technological applications of antimatter in our society. -- La antimateria es uno de los aspectos m\'as fascinantes de la F\'isica de Part\'iculas, y tambi\'en uno de los m\'as desconocidos. En este art\'iculo explicamos concisamente qu\'e es la antimateria y su diferenciaci\'on entre primordial y secundaria, c\'omo se produce, donde se encuentra, los experimentos que se realizan en el CERN para crear y analizar anti\'atomos, el problema de la asimetr\'ia materia-antimateria, y las aplicaciones m\'edicas y tecnol\'ogicas de la antimateria en nuestra sociedad.