{"id":269924,"date":"2017-02-02T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/02\/170202163030.htm"},"modified":"2017-02-02T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:30:30","slug":"particle-accelerators-size-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=269924","title":{"rendered":"Particle accelerators: Size matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beam of electrons was first observed to be accelerated with a \u2018gradient\u2019 \u2013 or energy transfer rate &#8211; of 300 MV\/m, which is very high for present-day accelerators, in a device rather like a microchip. This was made of silica glass and powered by a commercial laser beam, at the SLAC laboratory in the USA. It opens the way to build a particle accelerator \u201con a chip\u201d much more cheaply than conventional ones. However, few studies have been done of the all-important quality of the particle beam that can be obtained from such a \u2018micro accelerator\u2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beam of electrons was first observed to be accelerated with a &lsquo;gradient&rsquo; &ndash; or energy transfer rate &#8211; of 300 MV\/m, which is very high for present-day accelerators, in a device rather like a microchip. This was made of silica glass and powered by a commercial laser beam, at the SLAC laboratory in the USA. It opens the way to build a particle accelerator &ldquo;on a chip&rdquo; much more cheaply than conventional ones. However, few studies have been done of the all-important quality of the particle beam that can be obtained from such a &lsquo;micro accelerator&rsquo;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269925,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269924\/revisions\/269925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}