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Accelerators and detectors

Laser collisions could boost proton-beam energies

06 Jun 2019
Two laser beams
Two for one: The two laser pulses (red) collide at a metal foil to create a beam of protons (blue). (Courtesy: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology)
The energies of proton beams produced by laser-driven particle accelerators could be doubled, withou

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