{"id":104789,"date":"2020-04-05T00:27:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T07:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-laser-technique-will-allow-more-powerful-and-smaller-particle-accelerators"},"modified":"2020-04-05T00:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T07:27:39","slug":"new-laser-technique-will-allow-more-powerful-and-smaller-particle-accelerators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-laser-technique-will-allow-more-powerful-and-smaller-particle-accelerators","title":{"rendered":"New laser technique will allow more powerful\u2014and smaller\u2014particle accelerators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-laser-technique-will-allow-more-powerful-and-smaller-particle-accelerators.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Accelerating electrons to such high energies in a laboratory setting, however, is challenging: typically, the more energetic the electrons, the bigger the particle <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/accelerator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">accelerator<\/a>. For instance, to discover the Higgs boson\u2014the recently observed \u201cGod particle,\u201d responsible for mass in the universe\u2014scientists at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland used a particle accelerator nearly 17 miles long.<\/p>\n<p>But what if there was a way to scale down <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/particle+accelerators\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">particle accelerators<\/a>, producing high-energy electrons in a fraction of the distance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accelerating electrons to such high energies in a laboratory setting, however, is challenging: typically, the more energetic the electrons, the bigger the particle accelerator. For instance, to discover the Higgs boson\u2014the recently observed \u201cGod particle,\u201d responsible for mass in the universe\u2014scientists at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland used a particle accelerator nearly 17 miles long. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}