What's the longest time antimatter was able to be stored?

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What's the longest time antimatter was able to be stored?
 
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Depends on the type of antimatter you consider. Positrons and antiprotons can be stored for months in penning traps. I guess many years would be possible, but no one seems to bother keeping them that long.

http://gabrielse.physics.harvard.edu/gabrielse/papers/1994/1994_haarsma/chapter1.pdf
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More antiprotons ("no antiproton losses were detected over a period of several month")

Neutral antihydrogen is significantly harder to store, as it is not charged. The ALPHA experiment at CERN manages to store atoms for something like 15 minutes - probably more now but I didn't see anything new after 2011.
 
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For pbars, I believe the record is 69 days, 10 hours, 18 minutes, from the Fermilab antiproton accumulator. This happened between 26 March 2004 and 4 June 2004.
 
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