{"id":215223,"date":"2025-06-02T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/tabletop-particle-blaster-how-tiny-nozzles-and-lasers-could-replace-giant-accelerators"},"modified":"2025-06-02T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:20:23","slug":"tabletop-particle-blaster-how-tiny-nozzles-and-lasers-could-replace-giant-accelerators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/tabletop-particle-blaster-how-tiny-nozzles-and-lasers-could-replace-giant-accelerators","title":{"rendered":"Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tabletop-particle-blaster-how-tiny-nozzles-and-lasers-could-replace-giant-accelerators.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proton beams with giga-electron-volt (GeV) energies\u2014once thought to be achievable only with massive particle accelerators\u2014may soon be generated in compact setups thanks to a breakthrough by researchers at The University of Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Professor Masakatsu Murakami has developed a novel concept called micronozzle acceleration (MNA). By designing a microtarget with tiny nozzle-like features and irradiating it with ultraintense, ultrashort laser pulses, the team successfully demonstrated\u2014through advanced numerical simulations\u2014the generation of high-quality, GeV-class proton beams: a world-first achievement.<\/p>\n<p>The article, \u201cGeneration of giga-electron-volt proton beams by micronozzle acceleration,\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-03385-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton beams with giga-electron-volt (GeV) energies\u2014once thought to be achievable only with massive particle accelerators\u2014may soon be generated in compact setups thanks to a breakthrough by researchers at The University of Osaka. A team led by Professor Masakatsu Murakami has developed a novel concept called micronozzle acceleration (MNA). By designing a microtarget with tiny nozzle-like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215223","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=215223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}