{"id":144164,"date":"2022-08-16T00:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/first-demonstration-of-a-new-particle-beam-technology-at-fermilab"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:29:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:29:35","slug":"first-demonstration-of-a-new-particle-beam-technology-at-fermilab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/first-demonstration-of-a-new-particle-beam-technology-at-fermilab","title":{"rendered":"First demonstration of a new particle beam technology at Fermilab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-demonstration-of-a-new-particle-beam-technology-at-fermilab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists love to smash particles together and study the resulting chaos. Therein lies the discovery of new particles and strange physics, generated for tiny fractions of a second and recreating conditions often not seen in our universe for billions of years. But for the magic to happen, two beams of particles must first collide.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced the first successful demonstration of a new technique that improves particle beams. Future particle accelerators could potentially use the method to create better, denser particle beams, increasing the number of collisions and giving researchers a better chance to explore rare physics phenomena that help us understand our universe. The team published its findings in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04969-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a recent edition of <em>Nature<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists love to smash particles together and study the resulting chaos. Therein lies the discovery of new particles and strange physics, generated for tiny fractions of a second and recreating conditions often not seen in our universe for billions of years. But for the magic to happen, two beams of particles must first collide. Researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144164","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}