Scientists have used a pair of lasers and a supersonic sheet of gas to accelerate electrons to high energies in less than a ...

Key TakeawaysLaser-plasma accelerators could someday significantly reduce the size and cost of particle accelerators used in high-energy physics ...

With dual lasers, researchers have accelerated a high-quality beam of electrons to 10 billion electronvolts in just 30 centimeters. The experiment ... the amazing potential of laser-plasma ...