GBAR
E210176
GBAR is a physics experiment at CERN designed to produce and study ultra-cold antihydrogen atoms in order to precisely test how antimatter behaves in Earth's gravitational field.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| GBAR canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1889442 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: GBAR Context triple: [GBAR experiment, acronym, GBAR]
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A.
GAB
GAB is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Gabon.
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BG
BG is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Bulgaria.
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C.
Barcha
Barcha is the surname of Mercedes Barcha, the Colombian wife and lifelong companion of Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez.
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BGer
BGer is the commonly used German abbreviation for the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, the country's highest judicial authority.
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Gra
Gra, an acronym for the Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman), was an 18th-century Lithuanian Jewish sage renowned for his profound Talmudic, halachic, and Kabbalistic scholarship.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: GBAR Target entity description: GBAR is a physics experiment at CERN designed to produce and study ultra-cold antihydrogen atoms in order to precisely test how antimatter behaves in Earth's gravitational field.
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A.
GAB
GAB is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Gabon.
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B.
BG
BG is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing Bulgaria.
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C.
Barcha
Barcha is the surname of Mercedes Barcha, the Colombian wife and lifelong companion of Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez.
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D.
BGer
BGer is the commonly used German abbreviation for the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, the country's highest judicial authority.
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E.
Gra
Gra, an acronym for the Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman), was an 18th-century Lithuanian Jewish sage renowned for his profound Talmudic, halachic, and Kabbalistic scholarship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antimatter experiment
ⓘ
physics experiment ⓘ |
| acronymFor | Gravitational Behaviour of Antihydrogen at Rest ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
measure the free-fall acceleration of antihydrogen
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produce antihydrogen at microkelvin temperatures ⓘ |
| approvedBy | CERN Research Board ⓘ |
| collaborationType | international collaboration ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| designedTo | compare gravitational acceleration of antimatter with that of ordinary matter ⓘ |
| fullName | Gravitational Behaviour of Antihydrogen at Rest ⓘ |
| hasDetectorType | position-sensitive detector for annihilation products ⓘ |
| hasMeasurementQuantity | gravitational acceleration of antihydrogen ḡ ⓘ |
| hostInstitution | CERN ⓘ |
| infrastructure | beamline from CERN Antiproton Decelerator complex ⓘ |
| involves | production of antihydrogen by neutralizing antihydrogen ions ⓘ |
| keyTechnique |
production of antihydrogen ions via positronium–antiproton interactions
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sympathetic cooling of antihydrogen ions with laser-cooled ions ⓘ |
| locatedIn | CERN ⓘ |
| measurementMethod | time-of-flight free-fall of antihydrogen ⓘ |
| organizationType | CERN experiment ⓘ |
| primaryGoal |
measure the effect of Earth’s gravitational field on antihydrogen
ⓘ
test the weak equivalence principle with antimatter ⓘ |
| receivesAntiprotonsFrom |
Antiproton Decelerator
ⓘ
ELENA ring ⓘ |
| relatedExperiment |
AEgIS
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ALPHA ⓘ ASACUSA experiment ⓘ
surface form:
ASACUSA
ATRAP ⓘ |
| researchField |
antimatter physics
ⓘ
fundamental physics ⓘ gravitation ⓘ particle physics ⓘ |
| scientificMotivation |
probe possible differences between matter and antimatter in gravity
ⓘ
search for deviations from general relativity for antimatter ⓘ |
| status | under development ⓘ |
| studies |
antihydrogen
ⓘ
ultra-cold antihydrogen atoms ⓘ |
| temperatureRegime | ultra-cold ⓘ |
| tests |
CPT symmetry implications in gravitation
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equivalence principle ⓘ |
| timeScale | 21st century experiment ⓘ |
| uses |
antihydrogen ions
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antiprotons ⓘ free-fall measurement ⓘ ion trapping ⓘ laser cooling ⓘ positronium ⓘ positrons ⓘ |
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Subject: GBAR Description of subject: GBAR is a physics experiment at CERN designed to produce and study ultra-cold antihydrogen atoms in order to precisely test how antimatter behaves in Earth's gravitational field.
Referenced by (2)
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