Knovel – Using world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists create 2-million-degree “hot dense matter”
Knovel – Using world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists create 2-million-degree “hot dense matter”
27 January 2012
Scientists are currently using the most powerful X-ray laser in the world to further their understanding of fusion processes.
The U.S. Department of Energy is the proud owner of the Linac Coherent Light Source, the globe’s most powerful X-ray laser. Researchers at the lab have worked over the past few years to craft the world’s first atomic X-ray laser pulse, and to superheat and manipulate a cluster of matter heated to approximately 2 million degrees Celsius.
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