Wakefield-acceleration

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wakefield-acceleration

Title text: Also, AWAKE is the coolest experiment going.

Votey

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Plasma wakefield acceleration

A guide

Create a thin plume of lithium gas

Lithium paaaary!

Fire an extremely powerful laser into it.

I have more power than the rest of

The world combined

You're the first

Grad student who

Ever said that

The result is a "tube of plasma in the gas.

Protons are much heamer than electrons so consider them stationary for what follows

Hohoho! Stupid tiny electrons.

Fire two electron bundles into the "tobe. The leading bundue knocks away plasma.

bundle

bundle 1

In the wake of the bundles there are only protons

supe

reg

The knocked-away electrons zoom toward

The wake, boosting the bundues.

Thus, energies that today require big collders could be achieved in a one meter device

Hey, baby. Wanna come to my lab and see something tiny go really fast?

We don't yet know if this method will yield lhc- -level energies

so

Fast

But, I guess what I'm saying is, if it does, can we please do this?

Oh, you work at the lhc? Neato/ I have two of those on my lawn

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Dear Lord Feynman, Please let nothing be completely wrong in this comic.

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