Strathclyde physicists achieve new energies in ion acceleration / I fisici di Strathclyde raggiungono nuove energie nell'accelerazione degli ioni
Strathclyde physicists achieve new energies in ion acceleration / I fisici di Strathclyde raggiungono nuove energie nell'accelerazione degli ioni Segnalato dal Dott. Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Giuseppe Cotellessa Laser research is key to the Strathclyde ion acceleration project / La ricerca laser è la chiave del progetto di accelerazione dello ione a Strathclyde Superfast particle beams with applications in engineering and medicine emerge from interaction between lasers and plastic foil Particle accelerators are somewhat maligned but vastly important pieces of equipment. Vital to large-scale physics experiments such as those at CERN, they are sometimes derided as just the ultimate in “boys toys”. But high energy charged particles have many applications, including cancer therapy, highly accurate heating processes, probing exotic states of matter and even initiating nuclear fusion. The problem until now has been in achieving the very high energies – analogou