When a high-intensity laser interacts with plasma, the charged particles typically oscillate back and forth like waves on the ...

Translational research: Researchers have performed the first controlled irradiation of tumours in mice using laser-accelerated protons. (Courtesy: HZDR/Juniks) Laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) propel ...

How it works: electrons accelerated by a laser pulse (left) are used to drive the second-stage particle accelerator (right). (Courtesy: Thomas Heinemann/Strathclyde and Alberto Martinez de la ...

Plasma wakefield accelerators can provide energy gain of up to two orders of magnitude greater than conventional RF accelerators, making them a promising new technology for creating compact particle ...

Physicists have discovered a way to trap the world's coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle, a technological achievement that could advance research into clean energy, space weather and solar physics.

General Fusion says its LM26 fusion machine has more than tripled plasma electron temperature ...

Researchers who make the coldest plasmas in the universe just found a way to make them even colder — by blasting them with lasers. The scientists cooled the plasma to around 50-thousandths of a degree ...

The Department of Defense is constantly researching new forms of weaponry, both lethal and otherwise. Todd South learned more at the Pentagon. David Law and his fellow scientists at the Joint ...