Experimental Laboratories
Surfatron is the colloquial name for experimental particle accelerators using plasma acceleration. Currently such devices are in the proof of concept phase at the following institutions:
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- UCLA
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- United States Naval Research Laboratory
- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
- University of Michigan
- Chalk River Laboratories
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