{"id":221918,"date":"2025-09-16T00:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-technique-advances-compact-particle-accelerator-development"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:06:05","slug":"new-technique-advances-compact-particle-accelerator-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-technique-advances-compact-particle-accelerator-development","title":{"rendered":"New technique advances compact particle accelerator development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-advances-compact-particle-accelerator-development.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international collaboration has developed a new diagnostic technique for measuring ultra-short particle beams at STFC\u2019s Central Laser Facility. This collaboration is led by the University of Michigan and Queen\u2019s University Belfast. The research addresses a key challenge in developing compact alternatives to kilometer-long particle accelerators.<\/p>\n<p>Current X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), which produce laser-like X-rays for imaging at the viral scale, require facilities stretching for kilometers. These installations demand substantial resources and space that many institutions cannot accommodate.<\/p>\n<p>Laser-wakefield acceleration technology offers the potential to create similar capabilities in devices small enough to fit on a laboratory bench. This approach works by focusing an intense, ultra-short laser pulse into plasma, matter where electrons and ions are separated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international collaboration has developed a new diagnostic technique for measuring ultra-short particle beams at STFC\u2019s Central Laser Facility. This collaboration is led by the University of Michigan and Queen\u2019s University Belfast. The research addresses a key challenge in developing compact alternatives to kilometer-long particle accelerators. Current X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), which produce laser-like X-rays [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221918","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}