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...has zapped a piece of aluminium foil to something more than 2 million Kelvin in the fraction of a nano-second. They'll use it to study super-hot dense matter to gain new insights into stellar composition.
If I understood the article right, they can heat up matter and probe it with the same beam in one operation. Makes sense, considering we're basically talking about a focused-beyond-insanity x-ray apparatus here.
source: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory homepage
If I understood the article right, they can heat up matter and probe it with the same beam in one operation. Makes sense, considering we're basically talking about a focused-beyond-insanity x-ray apparatus here.
source: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory homepage
