{"id":18733,"date":"2015-10-25T04:47:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/physicists-create-antimatter-in-record-density"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:55:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:55:03","slug":"physicists-create-antimatter-in-record-density","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/physicists-create-antimatter-in-record-density","title":{"rendered":"Physicists create antimatter in record density"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-create-antimatter-in-record-density.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Positrons are plentiful in ultra-intense laser blasts <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physicists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin have found a new recipe for using intense lasers to create positrons \u2014 the antiparticle of electrons \u2014 in record numbers and density.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of experiments described recently in the online journal Scientific Reports published by Nature, the researchers used UT\u2019s Texas Petawatt Laser to make large number of positrons by blasting tiny gold and platinum targets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/physicists-create-antimatter-record-density-marine-le-bouar?trk=hp-feed-article-title-publish\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positrons are plentiful in ultra-intense laser blasts Physicists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin have found a new recipe for using intense lasers to create positrons \u2014 the antiparticle of electrons \u2014 in record numbers and density. In a series of experiments described recently in the online journal Scientific Reports published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51364,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733\/revisions\/51364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}