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Surf's up at SLAC

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A 'plasma afterburner' just 30 centimetres long accelerates electrons hundreds of times faster than giant conventional accelerators. The result may ultimately open up a low-cost technology for particle colliders. See Letter p.92

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Figure 1: Ramping up the energy.

SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab

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  1. Mike Downer and Rafal Zgadzaj are in the Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin, Texas 78712-1081, USA.,

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Downer, M., Zgadzaj, R. Surf's up at SLAC. Nature 515, 40–41 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/515040a

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