{"id":242564,"date":"2026-08-12T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/x-rays-beyond-the-nobel-prize-limit"},"modified":"2026-08-12T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:09:11","slug":"x-rays-beyond-the-nobel-prize-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/x-rays-beyond-the-nobel-prize-limit","title":{"rendered":"X-rays: Beyond the Nobel Prize limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/x-rays-beyond-the-nobel-prize-limit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When certain atoms are irradiated with laser light, they can produce a very different kind of laser light: laser pulses with extremely high frequencies in the X-ray range. These laser pulses, which helped achieve record-breaking results at TU Wien in the 1990s, were the subject of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.<\/p>\n<p>However, the theoretical model of this effect makes a clear prediction: There is an upper limit to the energy, depending on the properties of the laser beam directed at the atoms. Above a certain value, known as the energy cutoff, hardly any X-rays are produced.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, a new experiment jointly performed by teams at TU Wien and the University of California San Diego has succeeded in overcoming this textbook cutoff rule: Using helium atoms, the researchers reached a much higher energy range than standard theory would allow. The reason lies in the interaction between the two electrons in the helium atom: They can release their energy simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When certain atoms are irradiated with laser light, they can produce a very different kind of laser light: laser pulses with extremely high frequencies in the X-ray range. These laser pulses, which helped achieve record-breaking results at TU Wien in the 1990s, were the subject of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics. However, the theoretical [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242564","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=242564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}