{"id":234475,"date":"2026-04-02T06:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/building-desktop-particle-accelerators-to-unlock-new-realms-of-research"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:32:58","slug":"building-desktop-particle-accelerators-to-unlock-new-realms-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/building-desktop-particle-accelerators-to-unlock-new-realms-of-research","title":{"rendered":"Building desktop particle accelerators to unlock new realms of research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-desktop-particle-accelerators-to-unlock-new-realms-of-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important step toward miniaturization of particle accelerators by demonstrating free-electron laser amplification at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths (27\u201350 nm), with an acceleration length of only a few millimeters. By generating high-quality, monoenergetic electron beams (i.e. beams where all the electrons have nearly the same energy), they have achieved a key milestone toward compact accelerator technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/qvg7-ng8n\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Research.<\/p>\n<p>The research team led by The University of Osaka\u2019s Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN) in collaboration with Kansai Institute for Photon Science (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), RIKEN SPring-8 Center (RSC), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), used a technique called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-09-compact-electron.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">laser wakefield acceleration<\/a> to create plasma waves that generate extremely strong accelerating electric fields, thanks to waves within the plasma that travel at almost the speed of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important step toward miniaturization of particle accelerators by demonstrating free-electron laser amplification at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths (27\u201350 nm), with an acceleration length of only a few millimeters. By generating high-quality, monoenergetic electron beams (i.e. beams where all the electrons have nearly the same energy), they have achieved a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234475","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=234475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}