{"id":145292,"date":"2022-08-31T20:25:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T01:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/heliums-chilling-journey-to-cool-a-particle-accelerator"},"modified":"2022-08-31T20:25:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T01:25:54","slug":"heliums-chilling-journey-to-cool-a-particle-accelerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/heliums-chilling-journey-to-cool-a-particle-accelerator","title":{"rendered":"Helium\u2019s chilling journey to cool a particle accelerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wNKTbNi-bo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today it only takes one and a half hours to make a superconducting particle accelerator at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory colder than outer space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow you click a button and the machine gets from 4.5 Kelvin down to 2 Kelvin,\u201d said Eric Fauve, director of the Cryogenic team at SLAC.<\/p>\n<p>While the process is fully automated now, getting this accelerator, called LCLS-II, to 2 Kelvin, or minus 456 degrees Fahrenheit, took six years of designing, building, installing, and starting up an intricate system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it only takes one and a half hours to make a superconducting particle accelerator at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory colder than outer space. \u201cNow you click a button and the machine gets from 4.5 Kelvin down to 2 Kelvin,\u201d said Eric Fauve, director of the Cryogenic team at SLAC. While [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145292","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}