What a conventional particle accelerator needs kilometres to achieve, a compact 'plasma wakefield' accelerator has just mastered in less than a metre. So is it adieu to the era of the gargantuan mega-accelerator?
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Bingham, R. On the crest of a wake. Nature 445, 721–722 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/445721a
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