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BeAChooser wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 4:40 pm https://scitechdaily.com/the-particle-a ... m-science/

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, several national laboratories, European universities, and the Texas-based company TAU Systems Inc. have demonstrated a compact particle accelerator less than 20 meters long that produces an electron beam with an energy of 10 billion electron volts (10 GeV). There are only two other accelerators currently operating in the U.S. that can reach such high electron energies, but both are approximately 3 kilometers long.

“We can now reach those energies in 10 centimeters,” said Bjorn “Manuel” Hegelich, associate professor of physics at UT and CEO of TAU Systems, referring to the size of the chamber where the beam was produced. He is the senior author on a recent paper describing their achievement in the journal Matter and Radiation at Extremes.

Gee … and they did it without dark matter, dark energy, or any of the other gobbledegook gnomes that physics and astrophysics have pursued the last 50 years. In fact, as the article points out,

The concept of wakefield laser accelerators was first described in 1979. An extremely powerful laser strikes helium gas, heats it into a plasma, and creates waves that kick electrons from the gas out in a high-energy electron beam.

Imagine all the neat stuff we’d have if the mainstream hadn’t wasted billion and billions and billions on pursuing gnomes that won’t likely have ANY effect on the lives of the ordinary people living today but instead spent it investigating electromagnetism, plasma and nanotechnology.

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, several national laboratories, European universities, and the Texas-based company TAU Systems Inc. have demonstrated a compact particle accelerator less than 20 meters long that produces an electron beam with an energy of 10 billion electron volts (10 GeV). There are only two other accelerators currently operating in the U.S. that can reach such high electron energies, but both are approximately 3 kilometers long.

“We can now reach those energies in 10 centimeters,” said Bjorn “Manuel” Hegelich, associate professor of physics at UT and CEO of TAU Systems, referring to the size of the chamber where the beam was produced. He is the senior author on a recent paper describing their achievement in the journal Matter and Radiation at Extremes.

The concept of wakefield laser accelerators was first described in 1979. An extremely powerful laser strikes helium gas, heats it into a plasma, and creates waves that kick electrons from the gas out in a high-energy electron beam.