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Plasma Particle Accelerators

Electric fields generated in plasma can propel electrons to high energies. The process promises fields 10,000 times stronger than those of the most powerful conventional accelerators

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 260 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “Plasma Particle Accelerators” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 260 No. 3 (), p. 54
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0389-54