{"id":183761,"date":"2024-02-26T23:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/laser-focused-look-at-spinning-electrons-shatters-world-record-for-precision"},"modified":"2024-02-26T23:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:24:53","slug":"laser-focused-look-at-spinning-electrons-shatters-world-record-for-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/laser-focused-look-at-spinning-electrons-shatters-world-record-for-precision","title":{"rendered":"Laser-focused look at spinning electrons shatters world record for precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-focused-look-at-spinning-electrons-shatters-world-record-for-precision.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are getting a more detailed look than ever before at the electrons they use in precision experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear physicists with the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have shattered a nearly 30-year-old record for the measurement of parallel spin within an electron beam \u2013 or electron beam polarimetry, for short. The achievement sets the stage for high-profile experiments at Jefferson Lab that could open the door to new physics discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>In a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Physical Review C (\u201cUltrahigh-precision Compton polarimetry at 2 GeV\u201d), a collaboration of Jefferson Lab researchers and scientific users reported a measurement more precise than a benchmark achieved during the 1994\u201395 run of the SLAC Large Detector (SLD) experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are getting a more detailed look than ever before at the electrons they use in precision experiments. Nuclear physicists with the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have shattered a nearly 30-year-old record for the measurement of parallel spin within an electron beam \u2013 or electron beam polarimetry, for short. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183761","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=183761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}