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 ...
Labroots

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 ...
Princeton University

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 ...