{"id":225202,"date":"2025-11-16T08:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-radical-new-kind-of-particle-accelerator-could-transform-science"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:07:44","slug":"a-radical-new-kind-of-particle-accelerator-could-transform-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-radical-new-kind-of-particle-accelerator-could-transform-science","title":{"rendered":"A Radical New Kind of Particle Accelerator Could Transform Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-radical-new-kind-of-particle-accelerator-could-transform-science.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project.<\/p>\n<p>The way that intense X-rays are currently produced is through a facility called a synchrotron light source. These are used to study materials, drug molecules, and biological tissues. Even the smallest existing synchrotrons, however, are about the size of a football stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.04561\">research<\/a>, which has been accepted for publication in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/accepted\/10.1103\/cnym-16hc\">Physical Review Letters<\/a><\/em>, shows how tiny structures called carbon nanotubes and laser light could generate brilliant X-rays on a microchip. Although the device is still at the concept stage, the development has the potential to transform medicine, materials science, and other disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are currently produced is through a facility called a synchrotron light source. These are used to study materials, drug molecules, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,4,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225202","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=225202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}