CERN prepares to test revolutionary mini-accelerator

[jonbaer]

http://www.nature.com/news/cern-prepares-to-test-revolutionary-mini-accelerator-1.18519

[JumpCrisscross]

SLAC made a good minute-long video [1] explaining plasma wakefield acceleration. Calling it a "mini-accelerator" isn't, in my view, a fair description.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjoH1ZZrAik

[batbomb → JumpCrisscross]

The SLAC experiment is called FACET:

https://portal.slac.stanford.edu/sites/ard_public/facet/abou...