Slowing down muon decay with short laser pulses

Muons are unstable subatomic particles that spontaneously and rapidly transform into other particles via a process known as ...
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Ultrahigh-pressure laser experiments shed light on cores of 'super-Earth' exoplanets

Using high-powered laser beams, researchers have simulated conditions inside a planet three times as large as Earth. Scientists have identified more than 2,000 of these “super-Earths,” exoplanets that ...
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Laser Experiments Simulated Ultrahigh Pressure at the Core of a Super-Earth

What is like in the core of large rocky planets? Using high-powered laser beams, a team of researchers from Princeton University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Rochester ...
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US scientists complete laser lab for world’s largest vertical atom interferometer

A state-of-the-art experiment at the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ...