This technique is under active development, but cannot provide reliable beams of sufficient quality at present.
This X-ray radiation is used at beamlines of the synchrotron light sources for a variety of spectroscopies (XAS, XANES, EXAFS, μ-XRF, μ-XRD) in order to probe and to characterize the structure and the chemical speciation of solids and biological materials.
Linear accelerators use electron beam at near speed of light to treat deep cancers in patients.
[6] The U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency started work on particle beam weapons in 1958.
The power needed to project a high-powered beam of this kind surpasses the production capabilities of any standard battlefield powerplant,[7] thus such weapons are not anticipated to be produced in the foreseeable future.