{"id":285504,"date":"2017-03-10T08:39:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T12:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=cab44ae465901a04e38a625157dfba75"},"modified":"2017-03-10T08:39:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T12:39:26","slug":"relativistic-effects-pack-a-punch-in-high-temperature-plasma-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=285504","title":{"rendered":"Relativistic effects pack a punch in high-temperature plasma collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The interaction of highly charged heavy ions with electrons is one of the most important atomic processes in high-temperature plasmas,&#8221; explains University of Electro-Communications researcher Nobuyuki Nakamura in his recent J Phys B topical review. These high-temperature plasmas occur in a surprisingly large range of scenarios from astrophysical plasmas and solar corona, to fusion reactors and even laser-induced plasmas for short wavelength nanoscale photolithography, raising the stakes for understanding their behaviour. Nakamura&#8217;s review summarises how the relativistic effects resulting in the &#8220;Breit interaction&#8221; can play a significant role in these processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The interaction of highly charged heavy ions with electrons is one of the most important atomic processes in high-temperature plasmas,&#8221; explains University of Electro-Communications researcher Nobuyuki Nakamura in his recent J Phys B topical review. T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285504","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285505,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285504\/revisions\/285505"}],"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=285504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}