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Simulating tomorrow's accelerators at near the speed of light |
March 23, 2011
Borrowing a page from Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, scientists have perfected a way to accelerate modeling of laser-plasma wakefield accelerators up to a million times faster. While "tabletop" laser-plasma accelerators promise high energies in short spaces, 3-D simulation of electron acceleration by a laser beam moving through a plasma has presented a computational challenge that until now has been beyond practical solution by supercomputers.
Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322114831.htm
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