A new ‘photon–photon collider’, which may enable elusive Breit–Wheeler pair production in an optics laboratory setting, is predicted. Using this concept, it is potentially possible to ...

Just Add Gold. The photon collider would convert light directly into matter by using an extremely powerful high intensity laser to fire electrons at almost the speed of light into a slab of gold.

Here, we present the design of a new class of photon–photon collider in which a gamma-ray beam is fired into the high-temperature radiation field of a laser-heated hohlraum. Matching experimental ...

The facility may be suitable for conducting a photon-photon collider experiment. University of Rochester May 19, 2014, 12:10 PM EDT / Updated May 19, 2014, 8:11 PM EDT ...

Photon–photon collisions in the collider produce electron–positron pairs, and the positrons are accelerated by a plasma electric field created by the laser. This results in a positron beam.

A pair of researchers predicted a method for turning light into matter 80 years ago, and now a new team of scientists are proposing a technique that could make that method happen in the purest way ...

According to the Institute of Physics (IOP), European researchers have successfully identified individual returning photons from space 'after firing and reflecting them off of a space satellite in ...

Protons accelerated by the LHC generate a large flux of quasi-real high-energy photons that can interact to produce particles at the electroweak scale. Using the LHC as a photon collider, the ATLAS ...

Sugawara predicts that the cost of a photon-photon collider would be well under half that of the ILC, making it more appealing to potential funders. "If there is a financial threshold over which a ...

Led by researcher Oliver Pike, the team has devised a machine called the "photon-photon collider" which could hold the answer. The collider uses existing technologies and requires two key steps.