By Ian Bailey | Lecturer at Lancaster University -
Scientists working on an experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US have taken a step forward in developing a technology which could significantly reduce the size of particle accelerators. The technology is able to accelerate particles more rapidly than conventional accelerators at a much smaller size.
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Ref: "High-efficiency acceleration of an electron beam in a plasma wakefield accelerator"
Scientists working on making incredibly small and fast particle accelerators hundreds of times quicker than LHC
