A 200-trillion-watt laser can produce hotter plasma than the sun

Scientists at the Las Alamos National Laboratory have made a surprising announcement when they successfully bombarded metal sheets to create a hot plasma from a 200-million-watt laser and In general, it is "hotter" than the sun.

Successfully made plasma hotter than the sun

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Plan to bombard metal to create plasma.

The lab said that infrared light emitted by 200 trillion watts of lasers had fired on the underside of a test metal sheet, laser pulses that produced hot plasma lasted only a fraction of a trillion. seconds . Although the simplest time is very short, computers measure the speed of electrons shot out of the surface of the workpiece by the speed of light and the energy of the ions accumulating equal to the energy of the current of 10 million volts.

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Plasma images were created at the Los Alamos lab.

In the above image, the plasma has many different colors as a result of the collision between charged X-rays and neighboring surfaces of the embryo. Many devices are placed around the edges of the image that has been illuminated by the plasma. Green light occurs due to the second harmonic of the laser and is generated in a non-linear process occurring on the laser-plasma contact surface.

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Anti-Mass Spectrometer in Half-Life.

As soon as the photo of the experiment was published, many people pointed out that the plasma-making system was no different from the one that appeared in the first version of Half-Life . This shows that science is growing faster than we think.