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In article <C0IIG5.J1I.1@cs.cmu.edu> ganderson@nebula.decnet.lockheed.com writes:
>How can
>we talk about the performance of antimatter propulsion without knowing
>the mass fuel ratio? How much hardware does it take to contain a "tank" of
>antimatter (magnetic fields, etc.)? ...

Open question; the detailed engineering has not been done.  As usual, you
could make a wide variety of assumptions, from cautious-first-generation
to ambitious-long-term-possibilities.

>How do they contain the antimatter before injection into the collider?  If
>I remember correctly they have it going around in a racetrack in a holding
>facility, no???

That's right.  They work with antiprotons, not neutral antimatter atoms,
and they never do slow them all the way down to zero.
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