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Nature 431, 515-516 (30 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/431515a; Published online 29 September 2004
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Accelerator physics: Electrons hang ten on laser wake
Thomas Katsouleas1
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Electrons can be accelerated by making them surf a laser-driven plasma wave. High acceleration rates, and now the production of well-populated, high-quality beams, signal the potential of this table-top technology.
Huge particle accelerators have been at the vanguard of research in particle physics for more than half a century; through high-energy collisions of accelerated particles, the fundamental building-blocks and forces of nature have been revealed. The latest project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) currently under construction at CERN in Geneva, will attempt to find the Higgs boson, a particle associated with the mechanism through which all other known particles are thought to acquire their masses.
- Thomas Katsouleas is in the School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 3737 Watt Way, Los Angeles, California 90089-0271, USA.
e-mail: Email: katsoule@usc.edu
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