{"id":91240,"date":"2019-05-23T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-collider-concept-would-take-quantum-theories-to-an-extreme"},"modified":"2019-05-23T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:03:48","slug":"new-collider-concept-would-take-quantum-theories-to-an-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-collider-concept-would-take-quantum-theories-to-an-extreme","title":{"rendered":"New collider concept would take quantum theories to an extreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-collider-concept-would-take-quantum-theories-to-an-extreme3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new idea for smashing beams of elementary particles into one another could reveal how light and matter interact under extreme conditions that may exist on the surfaces of exotic astrophysical objects, in powerful cosmic light bursts and star explosions, in next-generation particle colliders and in hot, dense fusion plasma.<\/p>\n<p>Most such interactions in nature are very successfully described by a theory known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+electrodynamics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum electrodynamics<\/a> (QED). However, the current form of the theory doesn\u2019t help predict phenomena in extremely large electromagnetic fields. In a recent paper in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, researchers from the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and their colleagues have suggested a new particle collider concept that would allow us to study these extreme effects.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme fields sap energy from colliding particle beams\u2014an unwanted loss that is typically mitigated by bundling <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">particles<\/a> into relatively long, flat bunches and keeping the electromagnetic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">field<\/a> strength in check. Instead, the new study suggests making particle bunches so short that they wouldn\u2019t have enough time to lose energy. Such a collider would provide an opportunity to study intriguing effects associated with extreme fields, including the collision of photons emerging from the particle beams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-collider-concept-quantum-theories-extreme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new idea for smashing beams of elementary particles into one another could reveal how light and matter interact under extreme conditions that may exist on the surfaces of exotic astrophysical objects, in powerful cosmic light bursts and star explosions, in next-generation particle colliders and in hot, dense fusion plasma. Most such interactions in nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91240","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\/91240","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}