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For The First Time, Scientists Have Accelerated Electrons in a Plasma Wave
sciencealert.com ^ | 2 SEP 2018 | DAVID NIELD

Posted on 09/02/2018 9:45:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin

That's a big deal, because it could lead to much smaller and cheaper particle accelerators than the ones we currently rely on.

Right now, if you want to install a Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator in your back garden, you need a concrete tunnel about 27 kilometres (nearly 17 miles) long and US$5 billion in spare change.

But this new experiment uses something known as plasma wakefield acceleration – and it takes up just 10 metres or 33 feet of space.

The team behind the Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN in Geneva has been working for five years to get a result like this, and while it's still early stages, this could end up driving a huge improvement in the way we examine the fundamental physics of the world.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: awake; cern; electrons; geneva; lhc; plasma; stringtheory; switzerland; wave
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To: Right Wing Assault

and while they’re riding he turns on the particle beam!


21 posted on 09/02/2018 11:23:59 AM PDT by Reily
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To: BenLurkin

This might have applications for fusion research.


22 posted on 09/02/2018 11:25:12 AM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: BenLurkin

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All “break-throughs” in particle physics are announced a decade or more after they are proven technology.
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23 posted on 09/02/2018 11:28:42 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: BenLurkin

-—..., you need a concrete tunnel about 27 kilometres (nearly 17 miles) long and US$5 billion in spare change.-—

Only $5 billion? It’s a bargain - I’ll take it!


24 posted on 09/02/2018 11:29:36 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Nateman

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“Fusion research” is a hole-in-the-ocean cash cow for select “researchers.”
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25 posted on 09/02/2018 11:31:44 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Billthedrill

You darned tooting or I may print mine out on my 3D printer as soon as the instructions are available.


26 posted on 09/02/2018 11:44:32 AM PDT by BipolarBob (My computer can beat me at chess but I can beat it at kickboxing.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Fusion research sure seems like a money pit. Sometimes I wonder if the gravity wave detections at LIGO are nothing but a big scam. With billions of dollars involved there is plenty of incentive to cheat.
27 posted on 09/02/2018 12:06:13 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Hostage

Good luck. Keep us informed. If it’s successful we can think about creating a hand held device to use on our enemies!


28 posted on 09/02/2018 12:09:16 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: C210N
Not sure. Might need a Flux Capacitor though.
29 posted on 09/02/2018 12:10:06 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Nateman

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Pons and Fleishman definitely had the answer, and that answer threatened the wealthy and powerful, and the hotshots at the National Labratories.

Fusion by containment will never be productive.


30 posted on 09/02/2018 12:18:36 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Nateman

Nuttin 2 worry bout....When they finally create “the Black Hole” in real time...we will never notice it happened....we won’t BE !


31 posted on 09/02/2018 12:20:54 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: MichaelCorleone; READINABLUESTATE; Hostage
Right now, if you want to install a Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator in your back garden, you need a concrete tunnel about 27 kilometres (nearly 17 miles) long and US$5 billion in spare change.

Funny that. I have an abandoned 54 mile tunnel under me in Ellis County. I think that they made it about 14 miles underground. Killed by politics not by the science.

Abandoned except for the HQ it would be a neat bike track until we could get the extra government funding to shoot 10+ GEv particle beams through it.

32 posted on 09/02/2018 12:30:45 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: BenLurkin

Wow! What an amazing accomplishment! imagining those electrons zipping around in that plasma wave! I really felt bad for those slow electrons.


33 posted on 09/02/2018 12:42:37 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: I want the USA back

Good thing for them there’s still the Electronal College


34 posted on 09/02/2018 12:44:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: litehaus

Oddly enough the smaller black holes are the denser they are. I am not worried mankind will ever make anything compact enough for that


35 posted on 09/02/2018 12:46:53 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: BenLurkin

Enough with the mumbo jumbo — does this put us any closer to A Phased Plasma Rifle In The Forty Watt Range?


36 posted on 09/02/2018 2:57:45 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Reily
and while they’re riding he turns on the particle beam!

That's right. His products need to kill some people.

37 posted on 09/02/2018 4:55:44 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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Thanks BenLurkin.

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38 posted on 09/05/2018 12:05:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll have to think about this a while. 2Gev in 10m is pretty substantial, but I can’t help but wonder how to scale it up to usable energies.


39 posted on 09/11/2018 5:45:14 PM PDT by AFPhys ((Liberalism is what Smart looks like to Stupid people - ® - Mia of KC. Rush - 1:50-8/21/15))
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