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Where are we at with femtosecond laser driven accelerators? It seemed like there were promises of table-top accelerators in the near future.
by 01100011 5y ago
Where are we at with femtosecond laser driven accelerators? It seemed like there were promises of table-top accelerators in the near future.
- naasking 5y agoI was just thinking that laser-driven plasma wakefield accelerators have produced some promising results recently. Particle physicists still seem stuck in the big accelerator mentality when maybe there are better uses for that money, even in their own field.
- bettysdiagnose 5y agoI would say that 8km is actually quite small, and besides, LPWA has its own problems.
- naasking 5y agoOf course it has its own problems, the question is whether a novel approach is likely to yield more novel insights than the standard approach for the past 50 years. Answer seems kind of obvious.