New types of particle accelerators revolutionize civil and military research.

"Conceptual illustration of micronozzle acceleration (MNA). A solid hydrogen rod is embedded in an aluminum micronozzle, which channels and focuses plasma flow to optimize proton acceleration. Credit: Masakatsu Murakami"(Phys.org/Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators)

Lasers and micronozzles bring the tabletop particle accelerators closer to reality. Those systems use laser beams and magnetic fields to accelerate protons and electrons. Those systems can raise the electron’s energy level. The new system that combines liquid hydrogen and laser beams can raise the proton’s energy level to 1 GeV. That kind of ion system is much smaller than CERN particle accelerators, The new accelerator type can revolutionize civil and military technology. The ion engines or plasma ion engines that use high-energy plasma to create thrust can use that new particle accelerator type. 

The system can inject high-energy particles into gas and that system turns plasma into a high-energy level. The ion engine that can expand plasma like a regular rocket engine can form higher thrust than the regular ion engines. The plasma-ion engines combine ion and rocket engines under the new hybrid concept where high-energy plasma raises the gas temperature. There is a possibility to use antimatter injection to create high-energy plasma. The antiproton or positron injection will raise the gas's temperature and that creates thrust. 

"Concept of micronozzle acceleration (MNA). The MNA target employs a micronozzle housing a solid hydrogen rod (H-rod), precisely placed near the nozzle neck to maximize proton yield. Acting as a "power lens," the micronozzle focuses the incident laser energy onto the H-rod, enabling efficient and localized energy deposition. This configuration significantly boosts proton acceleration near the nozzle exit, outperforming setups lacking the nozzle structure. Credit: Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-03385-x" (Phys.org/Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators)

*The implications are wide-reaching:

*Energy: Supports fast ignition schemes in laser-driven nuclear fusion.

*Medicine: Enables more compact and precise systems for proton cancer therapy.

*Fundamental science: Creates conditions to simulate extreme astrophysical environments and probe matter under ultra-strong magnetic fields.

(Phys.org/Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators)

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"Illustration of a spacecraft powered by nuclear propulsion and solar sails traveling towards Sedna. Image generated by AI." (RudeBaquette, “We’re Finally Fast Enough”: Nuclear Propulsion and Solar Sails Could Blast a Spacecraft to Sedna in Just 7 Years)

In that spacecraft, the solar sail can act as a reactor cooler. The futuristic system comprises a solar sail and a nuclear thermal engine that can boost the rocket into a very high speed. And the atomic engine can use pulsed plasma to create ultra-high thrust. Begin of the journey the system can use both, solar sail and a nuclear engine for maximum thrust. Then at a longer distance that solar sail can turn into a cooling system. 

These kinds of plasma systems are dangerous in the wrong hands. The ion cannon is basically the same system as the ion engine. The main problem with ion cannons is how to keep the particle beam in its form. Particles with the same polarity repel each other. There is a possibility to shoot electron beams in the ion beam. Or the target can be loaded with opposite-polarity electricity that pulls those ions to it.

But there is also the possibility of creating plasma bombs by using ion technology. Basically, a plasma bomb is only a magnetic tank where high-energy plasma hovers away from the wall. The laser, microwave, or particle accelerators can create that plasma. The particle accelerator can load high-energy plasma into the bomb by using the positron injection. When that bomb drops to the ground its shell is broken. And that releases plasma from 10- 10000 or even millions of degrees Celsius to the air. Theoretically, plasma bombs can replace thermonuclear weapons if they can create plasma that has a temperature of tens of millions of degrees Celsius. 

The antimatter bomb is the tank where antimatter hovers away from the walls. The small-sized particle accelerator that is in the airplane can load antimatter into those capsules that the system shoots at the enemy. The antimatter capsules can also be used as fuel pellets for antimatter rockets. 

https://physicsworld.com/a/micronozzle-could-give-laser-driven-particle-accelerators-a-boost/

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-tabletop-particle-blaster-tiny-nozzles.html

https://www.rudebaguette.com/en/2025/07/were-finally-fast-enough-nuclear-propulsion-and-solar-sails-could-blast-a-spacecraft-to-sedna-in-just-7-years/

Changes in a strong nuclear force affect the spin of phi mesons.

"New data show that local fluctuations in the nuclear strong force may influence the spin orientation of particles called phi mesons (made of two quarks held together by the exchange of gluons). Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory"  (ScitechDaily.com/U.S. RHIC Atom Smasher Reveals a Surprising Preference in Particle Spin Alignment)

When the phi meson spins the string between quarks harvests energy. Then that energy pushes those particles away from each other. So the phi meson is acting like an energy harvester. If that particle exists longer time, that thing could use to measure the differences in energy levels around it. The energy harvester is a system that is two balls that are orbiting each other. 

When there is an antenna like a metal wire or laser ray between them that system sends electromagnetic wave movement to the sides of that energy harvester. And maybe in the future. These kinds of systems can use to create clean energy in space. 

The new research has shown that the changes in strong nuclear force can affect the spin of so-called Phi-mesons that include two quarks. The image above this text shows the spin of phi mesons. The quarks are orbiting each other and their common quantum field forms the phi-meson. The axle of the phi-meson seems to be in the middle of those two quarks. And this thing is remarkable. 

Could in the middle of those two quarks be some kind of particle? And could that hypothetical particle be the "quantum" the hypothetical elementary particle that is involved in all material and particles? The thing that makes phi-meson exist only a short moment. Then the two quarks that are forming this particle fly away. 

"Collisions of heavy ions “melt” the boundaries of individual protons and neutrons, setting free the quarks and gluons normally confined within to create a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Scientists look for spin alignment preferences among particles emerging from the QGP by tracking the distribution of their decay products relative to an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the reaction plane of the colliding nuclei. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory" (ScitechDaily.com/U.S. RHIC Atom Smasher Reveals a Surprising Preference in Particle Spin Alignment)

In some theories, the phi meson is the proto-particle. That was dominating material before the first hadrons formed after the Big Bang. In that model, high energy levels in the young universe kept those particles in form and they could form so-called mesonic material. Today that form of material does not exist anymore. But in the high-energy young universe, there is a possibility that phi mesons could form molecular-looking structures. 

Brookhaven laboratory made the impact tests with heavy ions. In that kinds of tests, the heavy ions are forming very hot debris. That debris is the quark-gluon plasma that is the most high-energy material in the world. That plasma is used for simulating conditions just after the Big Bang. But there is a possibility that the impacts of the heavy ions can use to form long-term phi mesons. The phi mesons require a very high energy level for forming. And a higher energy level means a longer lifetime. 

Those mesons can use to measure things like dark energy. The idea is when the phi meson spins it forms a sensor that could harvest the dark energy. If dark energy is forming strings or extremely thin magnetic fields. And then the phi meson impacts with those strings that should affect their spin. But that requires an extremely high energy level. 

https://scitechdaily.com/u-s-rhic-atom-smasher-reveals-a-surprising-preference-in-particle-spin-alignment/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_meson

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