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Jack Halliday

@jackhalliday.bsky.social

Experimental Plasma Physics Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. http://jackhalliday.github.io. They/him. Bisexual πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ. My posts are my own opinions, not those of my employer.

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Suppression of pair beam instabilities in a laboratory analogue of blazar pair cascades | PNAS The generation of dense electron–positron pair beams in the laboratory can enable direct tests of theoretical models of γ-ray bursts and active gal...

New in PNAS: we recreated blazar pair cascades in the lab. Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, we produced dense electron–positron beams and sent them through plasma to test whether beam instabilities can disrupt them, they can’t.
@ox.ac.uk @cern.bsky.social @golp-ist.bsky.social

08.11.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Omg 😳. This is awful!

21.03.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you ask me this is totally β€œon brand” for nature. But perhaps I’m too much of a cynic.

06.03.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Like a virus - Nature Physics Nature Physics - Like a virus

"Like a virus" – great title! 🎢 Who knew Madonna's influence would extend to nanomaterials? @alandeacon.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

14.02.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bounds on Heavy Axions with an X-Ray Free Electron Laser We present new exclusion bounds obtained at the European X-Ray Free Electron Laser facility (EuXFEL) on axionlike particles in the mass range ${10}^{\ensuremath{-}3}\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{eV}\ensurem...

Our PRL on axion searches at the European Free Electron Laser has just been published. We achieved competitive sensitivity to accelerator based experiments with a really novel technique and expect to probe down to QCD relevant couplings for heavy axions in future ☺️☺️
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

07.02.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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03.02.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks great!

21.01.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Link wasn’t working for me just now πŸ™ƒ

18.12.2024 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The electron cyclotron maser instability in laser-ionized plasmas We show that circularly polarized lasers create plasmas with long-lasting ring-shaped weakly relativistic momentum distributions which, in the presence of an ambient magnetic field, are prone to the e...

New @golp-ist.bsky.social preprint is out, by @thales-silva.bsky.social @pablojbilbao.com - tailoring distribution functions with lasers and exploring, in the lab, astro relevant plasma instabilities πŸ‘‡ arxiv.org/abs/2412.06783

10.12.2024 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Pretty!

21.11.2024 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Beautiful day in Oxford!!

17.11.2024 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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