{"id":240501,"date":"2026-07-09T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/x-pinch-plasma-achieves-radial-proton-acceleration-for-crisp-imaging"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:17:10","slug":"x-pinch-plasma-achieves-radial-proton-acceleration-for-crisp-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/x-pinch-plasma-achieves-radial-proton-acceleration-for-crisp-imaging","title":{"rendered":"X-pinch plasma achieves radial proton acceleration for crisp imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/x-pinch-plasma-achieves-radial-proton-acceleration-for-crisp-imaging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plasma pinches: From pursuits of nuclear fusion to an attractive point source of accelerated protons for proton radiography.<\/p>\n<p>Protons accelerated in a radial direction were discovered and used for the first time from pinch plasmas\u2014current-carrying plasma columns compressed by their own magnetic field\u2014according to a study led by the Czech Technical University in Prague and University of Michigan Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers accelerated protons to 3 mega electron volts (MeV) on relatively small-scale devices operating at a 400-kiloampere (kA) peak current. This expands access to proton radiography, a technique for imaging the ultra-fast evolution of electric and magnetic fields in plasma, once limited to sophisticated, expensive and often massive laser facilities like the OMEGA and OMEGA-EP laser systems at the University of Rochester\u2019s Laboratory for Laser Energetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plasma pinches: From pursuits of nuclear fusion to an attractive point source of accelerated protons for proton radiography. Protons accelerated in a radial direction were discovered and used for the first time from pinch plasmas\u2014current-carrying plasma columns compressed by their own magnetic field\u2014according to a study led by the Czech Technical University in Prague and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240501","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=240501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}