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Figure 1

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The plasma channel's electron density profile (blue) formed inside a sapphire tube (gray) with the combination of an electrical discharge and an 8 billionths of a second long laser pulse (red, orange, and yellow). This plasma channel was used to guide 40 quadrillionths of a second long "driver" laser, generating plasma waves and accelerating electrons to almost 8 billion electron volts in just 8 inches.

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Gennadiy Bagdasarov/Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics; Anthony Gonsalves and Jean-Luc Vay/Berkeley Lab

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Gennadiy Bagdasarov/Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics; Anthony Gonsalves and Jean-Luc Vay/Berkeley Lab

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