
Is there a better way to accelerate particles?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The New Way to Kill Our Particles
Technology involves using a plasma which is like a gas where all of the atoms have been broken down into single electrons and maybe protons or at least clumps of protons. Everything that can wiggle, everything we can describe in terms of like wave physics has resonant frequencies. You're not just like shining a bright laser beam into this thing and heating up all the electrons. You're doing laser pulses so that you have laser pulses at different locations through the plasma at the same time. Those pulse lengths and the pulse timings have to be just right to excite this motion in the plasma.
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