Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...
SCIENCE FOR EVERYONE: State Sen. Andrew Zwicker, who is also a physicist and hosts the “Science on Saturday” series at ...
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How a retractable plasma blade pushed engineering past its limits
The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma ...
Five independent teams of researchers have reviewed the work and claims made by a group at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) who announced in December 2022 that they had achieved the first ...
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New plasma accelerator boosts energy and brightness at once
A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...
Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core ...
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