Next-Gen Atom Smashers: Smaller, Cheaper and Super Powerful


Next-Gen Atom Smashers: Smaller, Cheaper and Super Powerful -- Lizzie Buchen  -- Wired  -- April 12, 2009
Supercolliders

Using simulations, a team of German and Russian physicists have pioneered a new technique for particle acceleration, called proton-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration (PWFA). The technique may one day allow machines a fraction of the size of today's accelerators to create the highest-energy particles ever.

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