Lock Pasers on Target

[Tuckerfan]

Sadly, they don’t seem to be talking about weaponizing the thing.

A group of scientists from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has used the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory to demonstrate, for the first time, the feasibility of particle acceleration by stimulated emission of radiation (PASER), a kind of particle analog of the laser process.

The technology may provide a brand new tool for the emerging field of nanoscience because the “cool” electrons produced will enable more precise x-ray probes of ultra-small structures. Both the essence of the concept and the proof-of-principle experiment performed at the ATF are described in an upcoming publication in Physical Review Letters.

Come on, Israel, we’re counting on you guys to turn this into a weapon! I want my 23rd Century-Style Death Ray, dagnabbit!

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Can it create Neutron output?
Is it theorethically possible to build one?