{"id":69,"date":"2017-01-06T17:29:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/?p=69"},"modified":"2017-06-16T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T10:52:39","slug":"pre-christmas-electron-beams-at-astra-ta2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/2017\/01\/06\/pre-christmas-electron-beams-at-astra-ta2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Christmas electron beams at Gemini TA2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our first experiment as a group and we have our first electrons beams. We are using the smaller of the two target areas of the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clf.stfc.ac.uk\/Pages\/Laser-system-Gemini.aspx\">Gemini laser<\/a>\u00a0and using just 450 mJ of energy we are accelerating electrons to 100s of MeV. We&#8217;ll be back in the new year to build on this and begin generating 5 beams per second and run our optimisation routines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our first experiment as a group and we have our first electrons beams. We are using the smaller of the two target areas of the wonderful Gemini laser\u00a0and using just 450 mJ of energy we are accelerating electrons to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/2017\/01\/06\/pre-christmas-electron-beams-at-astra-ta2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/spiral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}