To counter this tendency, Chen and Mourou devised a way to accelerate
the plasma wakefield itself, which can be thought of as a plasma mirror.
Pisin Chen of National Taiwan University and Gerard Mourou of the école Polytechnique in France realised that a next - generation particle accelerator called
a plasma wakefield accelerator could act like such a mirror.
«We're looking forward to further exploring this exciting approach to
plasma wakefield acceleration.»
In
plasma wakefield acceleration, energetic bundles of electrons or positrons traverse a plasma and generate plasma «wakes» for trailing bunches of particles to ride.
Not exact matches
... A team of German and Russian physicists have pioneered a new technique for particle acceleration, called proton - driven
plasma -
wakefield acceleration (PWFA).