{"id":121105,"date":"2021-03-31T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/throwing-nuclear-darts-at-the-speed-of-light-physicists-flip-particle-accelerator-to-gain-a-clearer-view-of-atomic-nuclei"},"modified":"2021-03-31T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:22:31","slug":"throwing-nuclear-darts-at-the-speed-of-light-physicists-flip-particle-accelerator-to-gain-a-clearer-view-of-atomic-nuclei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/throwing-nuclear-darts-at-the-speed-of-light-physicists-flip-particle-accelerator-to-gain-a-clearer-view-of-atomic-nuclei","title":{"rendered":"Throwing Nuclear Darts at the Speed of Light: Physicists Flip Particle Accelerator to Gain a Clearer View of Atomic Nuclei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/throwing-nuclear-darts-at-the-speed-of-light-physicists-flip-particle-accelerator-to-gain-a-clearer-view-of-atomic-nuclei2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shooting beams of ions at proton clouds, like throwing nuclear darts at the speed of light, can provide a clearer view of nuclear structure. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shooting beams of ions at proton clouds may help researchers map the inner workings of neutron stars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at MIT and elsewhere are blasting beams of ions at clouds of protons \u2014like throwing nuclear darts at the speed of light \u2014 to map the structure of an atom \u2019s nucleus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting beams of ions at proton clouds, like throwing nuclear darts at the speed of light, can provide a clearer view of nuclear structure. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT Shooting beams of ions at proton clouds may help researchers map the inner workings of neutron stars. Physicists at MIT and elsewhere are blasting beams of ions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121105","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}