{"id":125577,"date":"2021-07-27T21:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T04:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/this-is-the-first-mini-particle-accelerator-to-power-a-laser"},"modified":"2021-07-27T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T04:23:39","slug":"this-is-the-first-mini-particle-accelerator-to-power-a-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/this-is-the-first-mini-particle-accelerator-to-power-a-laser","title":{"rendered":"This is the first mini\u2013particle accelerator to power a laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-the-first-mini-particle-accelerator-to-power-a-laser2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 2 decades, physicists have strived to miniaturize particle accelerators\u2014the huge machines that serve as atom smashers and x-ray sources. That effort just took a big step, as physicists in China used a small \u201cplasma wakefield accelerator\u201d to power a type of laser called a free-electron laser (FEL). The 12-meter-long FEL isn\u2019t nearly as good as its kilometers-long predecessors. Still, other researchers say the experiment marks a major advance in miniaccelerators.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Experiment demonstrates improvement in particle beams from plasma-based accelerators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 2 decades, physicists have strived to miniaturize particle accelerators\u2014the huge machines that serve as atom smashers and x-ray sources. That effort just took a big step, as physicists in China used a small \u201cplasma wakefield accelerator\u201d to power a type of laser called a free-electron laser (FEL). The 12-meter-long FEL isn\u2019t nearly as good [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125577","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}