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January 8, 2020

News Feature

SLAC/Stanford researchers build a particle accelerator that fits on a chip

Just as engineers once compressed some of the power of room-sized mainframes into desktop PCs, so too have the researchers shown how to pack some of the punch delivered by today’s ginormous particle accelerators onto a tiny silicon chip.

December 2, 2019

Press Release

SLAC scientists invent a way to see attosecond electron motions with an X-ray laser

Called XLEAP, the new method will provide sharp views of electrons in chemical processes that take place in billionths of a billionth of a second and drive crucial aspects of life.

August 14, 2019

A million pulses per second: How particle accelerators are powering X-ray lasers

The next revolutionary X-ray laser in a class of its own, LCLS-II, is under construction at SLAC, with support from four other DOE national laboratories.

August 12, 2019

News Feature

Atomic ‘Trojan horse’ could inspire new generation of X-ray lasers and particle colliders

At SLAC’s FACET facility, researchers have produced an intense electron beam by 'sneaking’ electrons into plasma, demonstrating a method that could be used in future compact discovery machines that explore the subatomic world.