Laser powered electron/proton beams

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Coupling 2 'Tabletop' Laser-Plasma Accelerators, a Decisive First Step Toward Tomorrow's Ultrapowerful Compact Machines - Berkeley Lab

An experiment at Berkeley Lab showed that a laser pulse can accelerate an electron beam and couple it to a second laser plasma accelerator.

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Innovative target design leads to surprising discovery in laser-plasma acceleration

Scientists studying laser-plasma proton acceleration made an unexpected breakthrough, simultaneously resolving multiple long-standing problems although they had only aimed to address one.

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