Tiny, desktop sized plasma/laser-based particle accelerator speeds electrons to 4.25 giga-electron volts - 1,000x times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern!!!! gizmag/berkely-world-r... This laser system produces a beam of light equivalent to a quadrillion watts of power (a petawatt), which the Berkeley researchers used to focus on the very small, straw-like tube that contained the plasma of their particle accelerator. Though, in this initial experiment, it was limited to pulses of a mere 0.3 PW or 300,000 gigawatts.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:56:25 +0000
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