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  • noun physics A small area of very strong potential gradient, in a laser beam or plasma stream, used to accelerate charged particles in a plasma wakefield accelerator

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  • In addition, thank you to the following librarians and researchers: Miranda Schwartz at The New York Historical Society; Sara wakefield and Daniel Necas at the Immigration history research Center, University of Minnesota; william Lefevre at the walter p.

    A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009

  • In addition, thank you to the following librarians and researchers: Miranda Schwartz at The New York Historical Society; Sara wakefield and Daniel Necas at the Immigration history research Center, University of Minnesota; william Lefevre at the walter p.

    A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009

  • In addition, thank you to the following librarians and researchers: Miranda Schwartz at The New York Historical Society; Sara wakefield and Daniel Necas at the Immigration history research Center, University of Minnesota; william Lefevre at the walter p.

    A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009

  • This woman is too desperate and must be separated from senator Obama for security reasons. margie wakefield

    Clinton apologizes for RFK assassination comment 2008

  • January 22nd, 2010 - 9:11:29 AM sign me up kelly wakefield

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  • "Ignorance of the law is no excuse"!! sandra todd, wakefield

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  • Using simulations, a team of German and Russian physicists have pioneered a new technique for particle acceleration, called proton-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration (PWFA).

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Perhaps the biggest issue is the proton bunch length, which must be very small to allow the electrons to overshoot and create the wakefield.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • So Caldwell and his colleagues decided to give plasma-wakefield acceleration a new twist by blasting the plasma with protons instead of electrons.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • This is where plasma-wakefield acceleration may be able to help.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

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