Talk:Plasma acceleration

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I believe it should be 10 GV/m instead of 10 TeV/m. - Rasmus Ischebeck

This sentence didn't make sense to begin with: "It is hoped that a compact particle accelerator can be created based on plasma acceleration techniques or accelerators for much higher energy can be built, if long accelerators are realizable with an accelerating field of 10 GV/m.". But GV, really? Shouldn't that be GeV? Rl 07:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

no, it's referring to the field, which has a magnitude measured in volts per meter. a single electron accelerated across a gradient of X V/m will gain an energy of X eV/m, but gigavolts is the correct unit as this sentence is written. (also, hi rasmus!) Natelipkowitz 02:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Rl 06:31, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

A question: can this technique replace "ordinary" particle accelerators, like the Fermilab or CERN? I assume the answer is no, at least for now, or else it would have been done. So let me rephrase the question: is it possible that plasma accelerators will some day replace circular and/or linear accelerators? There's some discussion at the main Particle Accelerator page, but I would think there could be more discussion here (unless it's just unknown at present--but even that would be good to say here, IMHO). If not, is it because it's not possible in principle to get to those high energies, or because the beam that would be produced wouldn't be coherent enough? Mcswell 03:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)