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NEW ACCELERATOR TECHNIQUE DOUBLES PARTICLE ENERGY IN JUST ONE METER
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center issued the following press release: Imagine a car that accelerates from zero to 60 in 250 feet and then rockets to 120 miles per hour in just one more inch.
That's essentially what a collaboration of accelerator physicists has accomplished, using electrons for their racecars and plasma for the afterburners. Because electrons already travel at near light's speed in an accelerator, the physicists actually doubled the energy of the electrons, not their speed.
The researchers--from the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear ...
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