{"id":126247,"date":"2021-08-15T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/physicists-have-figured-out-how-we-could-make-antimatter-out-of-light"},"modified":"2021-08-15T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:24:56","slug":"physicists-have-figured-out-how-we-could-make-antimatter-out-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/physicists-have-figured-out-how-we-could-make-antimatter-out-of-light","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Have Figured Out How We Could Make Antimatter Out of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-have-figured-out-how-we-could-make-antimatter-out-of-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study by scientists has demonstrated how researchers may be able to create an accelerating jet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/antimatter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"antimatter\">antimatter<\/a> from light.<\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists has shown that high-intensity lasers can be used to generate colliding gamma photons \u2013 the most energetic wavelengths of light \u2013 to produce electron-positron pairs. This, they say, could help us understand the environments around some of the Universe\u2019s most extreme objects: neutron stars.<\/p>\n<p>The process of creating a matter-antimatter pair of particles \u2013 an electron and a positron \u2013 from photons is called the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Breit%E2%80%93Wheeler_process\">Breit-Wheeler process<\/a>, and it\u2019s extremely difficult to achieve experimentally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by scientists has demonstrated how researchers may be able to create an accelerating jet of antimatter from light. A team of physicists has shown that high-intensity lasers can be used to generate colliding gamma photons \u2013 the most energetic wavelengths of light \u2013 to produce electron-positron pairs. This, they say, could help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126247","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\/126247","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=126247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}