{"id":113511,"date":"2020-09-27T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T05:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/invention-using-terahertz-radiation-could-make-particle-accelerators-10-times-smaller"},"modified":"2020-09-27T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T05:22:30","slug":"invention-using-terahertz-radiation-could-make-particle-accelerators-10-times-smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/invention-using-terahertz-radiation-could-make-particle-accelerators-10-times-smaller","title":{"rendered":"Invention Using Terahertz Radiation Could Make Particle Accelerators 10 Times Smaller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/invention-using-terahertz-radiation-could-make-particle-accelerators-10-times-smaller2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SLAC invention uses terahertz radiation to power a miniscule copper accelerator structure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Particle accelerators generate high-energy beams of electrons, protons and ions for a wide range of applications, including particle colliders that shed light on nature\u2019s subatomic components, X-ray lasers that film atoms and molecules during chemical reactions and medical devices for treating cancer.<\/p>\n<p>As a rule of thumb, the longer the accelerator, the more powerful it is. Now, a team led by scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has invented a new type of accelerator structure that delivers a 10 times larger energy gain over a given distance than conventional ones. This could make accelerators used for a given application 10 times shorter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLAC invention uses terahertz radiation to power a miniscule copper accelerator structure. Particle accelerators generate high-energy beams of electrons, protons and ions for a wide range of applications, including particle colliders that shed light on nature\u2019s subatomic components, X-ray lasers that film atoms and molecules during chemical reactions and medical devices for treating cancer. As [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113511","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\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}