{"id":216626,"date":"2025-06-26T01:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/tiny-collider-experiment-determines-three-electrons-are-enough-for-strong-interactions-between-particles"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:18:36","slug":"tiny-collider-experiment-determines-three-electrons-are-enough-for-strong-interactions-between-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/tiny-collider-experiment-determines-three-electrons-are-enough-for-strong-interactions-between-particles","title":{"rendered":"Tiny collider experiment determines three electrons are enough for strong interactions between particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-collider-experiment-determines-three-electrons-are-enough-for-strong-interactions-between-particles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three electrons are enough to trigger strong interactions between particles. That is what was demonstrated by scientists from the CNRS and l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Grenoble Alpes, in collaboration with teams from Germany and Latvia, in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09139-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of a tiny collider they built themselves, the researchers successfully \u201caccelerated\u201d up to five <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrons<\/a> at the same time toward a separation barrier, and counted the number of electrons present on each side.<\/p>\n<p>The result: Three electrons are enough to show <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/strong+interactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">strong interactions<\/a> between particles. With five electrons, the interactions become so intense that they imitate the behavior of hundreds of billions of electrons. Placed together, these three particles form an actual \u201cheap\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/liquid+state\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liquid state<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three electrons are enough to trigger strong interactions between particles. That is what was demonstrated by scientists from the CNRS and l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Grenoble Alpes, in collaboration with teams from Germany and Latvia, in a study published in the journal Nature. With the help of a tiny collider they built themselves, the researchers successfully \u201caccelerated\u201d [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216626","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=216626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}