{"id":122310,"date":"2021-05-06T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/record-breaking-laser-pulses-allow-astrophysical-phenomena-to-be-studied-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2021-05-06T09:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:22:36","slug":"record-breaking-laser-pulses-allow-astrophysical-phenomena-to-be-studied-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/record-breaking-laser-pulses-allow-astrophysical-phenomena-to-be-studied-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Record-Breaking Laser Pulses Allow Astrophysical Phenomena to Be Studied in the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-breaking-laser-pulses-allow-astrophysical-phenomena-to-be-studied-in-the-lab.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have demonstrated a record-high laser pulse intensity of over 10<sup>23<\/sup> W\/cm<sup>2<\/sup> using the petawatt laser at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS), Institute for Basic Science in the Republic of Korea. It took more than a decade to reach this laser intensity, which is ten times that reported by a team at the University of Michigan in 2004. These ultrahigh intensity light pulses will enable exploration of complex interactions between light and matter in ways not possible before.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful laser can be used to examine phenomena believed to be responsible for high-power cosmic rays, which have energies of more than a quadrillion (1015) electronvolts (eV). Although scientists know that these rays originate from somewhere outside our solar system, how they are made and what is forming them has been a longstanding mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis high intensity laser will allow us to examine astrophysical phenomena such as electron-photon and photon-photon scattering in the lab,\u201d said Chang Hee Nam, director of CoReLS and professor at Gwangju Institute of Science &amp; Technology. \u201cWe can use it to experimentally test and access theoretical ideas, some of which were first proposed almost a century ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have demonstrated a record-high laser pulse intensity of over 1023 W\/cm2 using the petawatt laser at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS), Institute for Basic Science in the Republic of Korea. It took more than a decade to reach this laser intensity, which is ten times that reported by a team at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122310","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=122310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}