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How does magnetic storing of antimatter works?

If I have understood this right a magnetic field is used to keep the antimatter floating in mid air so to speak and preventing it from hitting the walls in the chamber.

My knowledge of how magnets work is very elementary, just based on how magnets used in ordinary life works.

If the antimatter parts in the chamber acting like magnets they must have a positive and a negative pole so one pole must be attract by the magnetic field in the chamber. If that is correct then why are not the antimatter pulled in contact with the magnet? Are the antimatter a mono pole?

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How does magnetic storing of antimatter works?

If I have understood this right a magnetic field is used to keep the antimatter floating in mid air so to speak and preventing it from hitting the walls in the chamber.

My knowledge of how magnets work is very elementary, just based on how magnets used in ordinary life works.

From someone else with an elementary understanding:

1. Magnetic fields influence electrical charges.
1.a. Transformers are based on the above point: Use a magnetic field to "spin" a current to boost its power.
2. A major point in the definition of "anti-matter" is what type of charge the matter has.
2.a. Electrons are 1(-), Protons are 1(+), Positrons are 1(+), "Anti-Protons" are 1(-).
3. To magnetically influence/control anti-matter involves similar settings to controlling the "normal" matter equivalents where one goal is "Don't let it touch the sides of the container."
3.a. I.E. Magnetically controlling Electrons is 'Electro-Magnetically' the same as "Anti-Protons."

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How does magnetic storing of antimatter works?

The standard device for trapping charged particles is the Penning Trap.
I don't know how they trap neutral particles like antihydrogen atoms.

Thank you Jeffrey & Kabal for your reply.

I can understand how i works as long positrons an anti protons are not combined, then they just use an electric field to make the particles floating in mid air. What I can't understand is how they do it when they are combined in to anti hydrogen, which I suppose is electric neutral. If I understand this right they are using a magnetic field to have the anti hydrogen floating in mid air. If I imagine that the anti hydrogen molecules behave like tiny magnets with a negative and a positive pole and that the walls have a magnetic charge, positive or negative, then the molecules will rotate so that the opposite pole on the molecule, relative the charge of the wall, that is closest to the wall turns towards the wall end then the molecule will be dragged in to the wall.

Apparently this does not happens, my question i why?

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How does magnetic storing of antimatter works?

If I have understood this right a magnetic field is used to keep the antimatter floating in mid air so to speak and preventing it from hitting the walls in the chamber.

My knowledge of how magnets work is very elementary, just based on how magnets used in ordinary life works.

If the antimatter parts in the chamber acting like magnets they must have a positive and a negative pole so one pole must be attract by the magnetic field in the chamber. If that is correct then why are not the antimatter pulled in contact with the magnet? Are the antimatter a mono pole?

Have you ever seen these levitating globes?

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Have you ever seen these levitating globes?

Is the globe electrical neutal and hold only by magnets?

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In short, if that is possible;). Is the alignment of the matter, in regard to polarity, managed by the electrical field and the floating managed by the magnetic field?

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This is taken from the link provided by Kabal.

"In an ideal Penning trap the ring and endcaps are hyperboloids of revolution."

I wonder how and hyperbolic ring looks like?

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You might find this artcle interesting

Scientists create most powerful antimatter beam
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34554/118/

Pulstar website.
http://www.ne.ncsu.edu/NRP/e+.html

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I'm not the LHC Alex. Just a number cruncher like everyone else here.