Scientists Achieve First Ever Acceleration of Electrons in Plasma Waves: An international team of physicists, working at CERN, demonstrated a new way of accelerating electrons to high energies — one that could dramatically shrink the size of future particle accelerators and lower their costs.

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Scientists Achieve First Ever Acceleration of Electrons in Plasma Waves: An international team of physicists, working at CERN, demonstrated a new way of accelerating electrons to high energies — one that could dramatically shrink the size of future particle accelerators and lower their costs.