Laser-driven particle accelerators can accelerate electrons to energies in excess of 1 GeV over a distance of just a few centimetres. An innovative technique that drastically reduces the computational demands of simulating laser–plasma interactions should help increase this to tens of gigaelectronvolts.
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Trines, R. Plasma models get a boost. Nature Phys 6, 239–240 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1642
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