New High-Power Electron Beams

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Physicists achieve record-breaking electron beam power and current

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A team of physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , in Menlo Park , California , generated the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beams ever produced.

They generated 100 kiloamps of current for just one quadrillionth of a second .

At its zenith, the pulse was just 0.3 micrometers long.

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