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Subatomic Particles Got Smashed Faster Than Ever By BELLA

December 9, 2014 By Deborah Cobing Leave a Comment

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Subatomic Particles Got Smashed Faster Than Ever By BELLA1

Subatomic particles got smashed faster than ever by BELLA, a compact atom accelerator manoeuvred by a group of scientists from the U.S. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

The procedure was performed with one of the most effective lasers on the planet. BELLA (Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator) is a standout laser amongst others used worldwide, and was created to accomplish the record-breaking deed of becoming a compact particle accelerator. BELLA started its activity last year and is capable of creating a quadrillion watts of power (a petawatt).

The team at Berkeley Lab made the particles move faster thanks to the very specialized petawatt laser and a charged-molecule gas. This rising class of molecule quickening agents is known as a laser-plasma accelerator.

Researchers believe that a laser-plasma accelerator can actually reduce the size of traditional accelerators considerably to fit on a regular table.

Conventional accelerators like for instance CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, make particles move faster by adjusting electric fields inside a metal container. This approach, however, has a point of confinement of roughly 100 super electron volts every meter. Anything higher than that will destroy the metal container.

In this specific study, the electrons were accelerated within a 4 inch tube-like plasma container, reaching an energy of 4.25 giga-electron volts. This acceleration is 1,000 times bigger than that of customary particle accelerators. As a result, the tests have set a world record energy for laser-plasma quickening agents.

Dr. Wim Leemans, chief of the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division at Berkeley Lab and main author of the study said the outcome of the experiment requires that the laser and the plasma be strongly controlled.

This involved software simulations at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) to test the set-up of the quickening agent and perceive how distinctive parameters would influence the results.

Eric Esarey, senior science counselor for the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division at Berkeley Lab, remarked that since even little alterations could have an severe impact on the outcome  it was critical to concentrate on the districts of operation and the most ideal approaches to maneuver the accelerator.

Also, Dr. James Symons, working in Physical Sciences as an associate laboratory director at Berkeley Laboratory, added that the results of the study represent an incredible accomplishment for the Berkeley Lab team since this was the first time using BELLA.

The outcome of the tests was published in the latest number of Physical Review Letters where a lengthy description of the experiment is available.

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Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Berkeley Lab Particle Accelerator Sets New World Record, make particles move faster by adjusting electric fields inside a metal container, Physicists Break World Record for Compact Particle Accelerator, Researchers achieve record-breaking energies with help of BELLA, Tabletop-sized particle accelerator sets new record, US Compact Particle Accelerator Generates World's Highest Ever Energy Output

About Deborah Cobing

The two C’s that best describe Deborah are calm and calculated. When she was younger she was fiercely determined to become a doctor. That was until she actually got into medicine school. After two years of university she realized that she wasn’t quite cut out for the job. She quickly halted her studies and decided to pursue a career in writing instead.

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