A device that accelerates electrically charged particles to extremely high speeds, for the purpose of inducing high energy reactions or producing high energy radiation.

(physics) A particle accelerator that uses plasma as the medium of the accelerating field instead of a vacuum, to obtain a larger accelerating gradient.

(computing) A graphics card with its own GPU and memory, for greater performance.

plural of accelerator card

plural of plasma accelerator

(physics) A form of mass spectrometry in which ions are accelerated to extraordinarily high kinetic energies before mass analysis.

(physics) A kind of plasma accelerator that utilize an amplitude-modulated intense laser beam to excite a large amplitude plasma wave that propagates at near the speed of light with a longitudinal acceleration electric field.

(physics) A device in which a drive beam (either laser or particle) produces a plasma wave ("wakefield") that accelerates charged particles in a relatively short distance.

plural of laser-plasma accelerator

plural of plasma wakefield accelerator