Scientists Create the World’s Smallest Particle Accelerator
The Tiny Wonder: Scientists Unveil Mini Particle Accelerator
Particle accelerators are like super-fast racetracks for tiny particles that scientists use to learn more about how the smallest building blocks of our world behave. They’re essential tools for many areas of science, and one of the most famous is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe, which is really huge and has made some incredible discoveries like finding the Higgs boson.
But imagine this: there’s a tiny particle accelerator that’s like a little superhero, and it’s 54 million times smaller than the LHC! It’s creating quite a buzz in the world of science because of what it can do. In this article, we’ll tell you the exciting story of this tiny accelerator.
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Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have developed the world’s first nanophotonic electron accelerator, which is the size of a computer chip and uses lasers to speed up electrons. The channel the electrons are accelerated through is only roughly 225 nanometers in width, and the structures they use are merely 0.5 millimeters in length. The researchers succeeded in…
