{"id":3038,"date":"2019-07-08T11:48:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T02:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-wp22.ile.osaka-u.ac.jp\/eng\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2019-07-26T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T06:56:11","slug":"our-work-in-the-top-100-scientific-reports-physics-papers-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www-wp22.ile.osaka-u.ac.jp\/eng\/2019\/07\/08\/our-work-in-the-top-100-scientific-reports-physics-papers-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Our work in the Top 100 Scientific Reports physics papers in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3040\" src=\"http:\/\/www-wp22.ile.osaka-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/190708news-Top10-prof-murakami-300x271.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www-wp22.ile.osaka-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/190708news-Top10-prof-murakami-300x271.png 300w, http:\/\/www-wp22.ile.osaka-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/190708news-Top10-prof-murakami.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Could a Particle Accelerator Using Laser-Driven Implosion Become a Reality?<\/p>\n<p>Laser pulse compression technology invented in the late 1980s developed high-power short-pulse laser techniques, enhancing laser intensity 10-million-fold in a quarter of a century.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Osaka University discovered a novel particle acceleration mechanism called &#8216;Micro-bubble implosion,&#8217; in which super-high energy hydrogen ions (relativistic protons) are emitted at the moment when bubbles shrink to atomic size through the irradiation of hydrides with micron-sized spherical bubbles by ultraintense laser pulses. Their research results were published in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>The group led by Masakatsu Murakami has reported an astonishing physical phenomenon: when shrinking matter to the unprecedented high level, with density comparable to matter the size of a sugar cube weighing more than 100 kg, high-energy protons are emitted from the positively-charged nanoscale clusters, a world first. Usually, an acceleration distance of several tens to hundreds of meters is necessary for conventional accelerators to generate such huge energy.<\/p>\n<p>In micro-bubble implosion, a unique ion motion in which ions (charged particles) converge to a single point in space at half the speed of light plays a crucial role. This phenomenon, which looks like the opposite of the Big Bang, is essentially different from any previously discovered or proposed acceleration principles.<\/p>\n<p>This new concept will clarify unknown space physics of grand scales of time and space, such as the origins of high-energy protons moving about in stars and space. In addition, as a compact source of neutron radiation through nuclear fusion, this concept will be utilized in a variety of applications in medical treatment and industry in the future, such as proton radiotherapy to treat cancer, the development of new energy with laser nuclear fusion, cross-sectional photos for developing fuel cells, and development of new substances.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3764 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www-wp22.ile.osaka-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/190708news-Fig1_Murakami-300x246.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>URL\uff1a https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-018-25594-3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could a Particle Accelerator Using Laser-Driven Implosion Become a Reality? 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