{"id":128836,"date":"2021-10-10T20:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/doubling-creation-of-antimatter-using-same-laser-energy"},"modified":"2021-10-10T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T03:22:21","slug":"doubling-creation-of-antimatter-using-same-laser-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/doubling-creation-of-antimatter-using-same-laser-energy","title":{"rendered":"Doubling creation of antimatter using same laser energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doubling-creation-of-antimatter-using-same-laser-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/a> (LLNL) scientists have achieved a near 100 percent increase in the amount of antimatter created in the laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Using targets with micro-structures on the laser interface, the team shot a high-intensity laser through them and saw a 100 percent increase in the amount of antimatter (also known as positrons). The research appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/full\/10.1063\/5.0038222\"><em>Applied Physics Letters<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research using a tiny gold sample created about 100 billion particles of antimatter. The new experiments double that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have achieved a near 100 percent increase in the amount of antimatter created in the laboratory. Using targets with micro-structures on the laser interface, the team shot a high-intensity laser through them and saw a 100 percent increase in the amount of antimatter (also known as positrons). The research [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128836","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=128836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}