A Plasma Tube to Bring Particles Up to Speed at SLAC
Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 13:01
in Physics & Chemistry
A team led by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has reached another milestone in developing a promising technology for accelerating particles to high energies in short distances: They created a tiny tube of hot, ionized gas, or plasma, in which the particles remain tightly focused as they fly through it.