{"id":239300,"date":"2026-06-19T02:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/diamond-based-particle-detector-captures-one-picosecond-electron-bursts-for-high-rate-beam-diagnostics"},"modified":"2026-06-19T02:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:23:32","slug":"diamond-based-particle-detector-captures-one-picosecond-electron-bursts-for-high-rate-beam-diagnostics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/diamond-based-particle-detector-captures-one-picosecond-electron-bursts-for-high-rate-beam-diagnostics","title":{"rendered":"Diamond-based particle detector captures one-picosecond electron bursts for high-rate beam diagnostics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diamond-based-particle-detector-captures-one-picosecond-electron-bursts-for-high-rate-beam-diagnostics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at UC Santa Cruz and other institutes across California and New Mexico have developed a detection system that will allow next-generation particle accelerators to better reveal fundamental biological and chemical processes, as well as advance critical areas such as materials science and energy research.<\/p>\n<p>The Advanced Accelerator Diagnostics Collaboration, a group of two University of California campuses and three U.S. national laboratories, came together to solve a growing need for high-rate beam diagnostics. These accelerators will now jump from 120 pulses a second to 1 million pulses a second, straining current beam diagnostic systems. The results are now <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prab\/abstract\/10.1103\/m79w-ft8t\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Accelerators and Beams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really highlights the power of collaboration between universities and national laboratories,\u201d said Bruce Schumm, the Long Family Professor of Experimental Physics. \u201cIf you took away Lawrence Berkeley Lab, if you took away Los Alamos, if you took away UC Davis, any of those, the whole thing would have fallen apart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at UC Santa Cruz and other institutes across California and New Mexico have developed a detection system that will allow next-generation particle accelerators to better reveal fundamental biological and chemical processes, as well as advance critical areas such as materials science and energy research. The Advanced Accelerator Diagnostics Collaboration, a group of two University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239300","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=239300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}