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How does antimatter work?

So from what I've read scientist can create antimatter by shooting protons through a negative field and end up with an **antiproton**, scientist say that if this antiproton were to collide they would release 100% of their energy. So if this happens does that mean they cease to exist, if so doesn't that violate the conservation of mass law?
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What is conserved is not strictly the mass but the total "budget" of mass and energy (since they are related).
So when matter and antimatter collide they annihilate into a cascade of photons and other pair of particles, created by the usually huge (on the subatomic scale) release of energy.