Laser ion acceleration uses intense laser flashes to heat electrons of a solid to enormous temperatures and propel these ...

Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered how solar activity affects the velocity distribution and evolution of ...

Laser Ion acceleration uses intense laser flashes to heat electrons of a solid to enormous temperatures and propel these charged particles to extreme speeds. These have recently gained traction ...

The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has vaulted the United States to the forefront of high-intensity laser ...

Experimental samples are placed inside the instrument and bombarded with charged particles from the radioactive ion ...

Physicists are using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to test key accelerator strategies for a new state-of-the-art Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) that will reuse some of RHIC's crucial ...

The low-energy high-intensity heavy ion accelerator facility, or LEAF, is the world's first stand-alone heavy ion accelerator. It's capable of generating heavy ion beams several times more ...

The world's first stand-alone low-energy high-intensity heavy-ion accelerator facility (LEAF), developed by the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently passed the ...

Dr Kaitlin Cook, deputy scientific director of the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility, and Emeritus Professor David Hinde.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen “You’d burn it. Not badly. But it would hurt ...