UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–26 January 2012. Extreme conditions of temperature and pressure found in stars have been recreated on Earth using the world’s brightest X-ray source.
An international team, led by Oxford University scientists, studied how solid matter responded to X-ray laser pulses produced by the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) based in Stanford, California. The team focused the X-rays onto a spot 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair, heating a metal foil…
