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Nature 445, 721-722 (15 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445721a; Published online 14 February 2007
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Plasma physics: On the crest of a wake
Robert Bingham1
Abstract
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?
Wakes — the areas of fluid turbulence most commonly seen around the pontoons of bridges and behind moving boats — have long excited human curiosity. Leonardo da Vinci carried out some of the first scientific investigations into wakes in the early sixteenth century by placing obstacles in fast-moving water (Fig. 1
- Robert Bingham is at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 OQX, UK.
Email: r.bingham@rl.ac.uk
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