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June 15, 2022
News Brief
Researchers model accelerator magnets' history using machine learning approach
Knowing a magnet’s past will allow scientists to customize particle beams more precisely in the future. As accelerators stretch for higher levels of performance, understanding subtle effects, such as those introduced by magnetic history, is becoming more critical.
A magnet on a test stand inside SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
June 9, 2022
News Feature
SLAC’s Auralee Edelen and Noah Kurinsky receive prestigious DOE Early Career Awards
Edelen draws on machine learning to fine tune particle accelerators, while Kurinsky develops dark matter detectors informed by quantum information science.
Side by side photographs of a woman and a man.
May 10, 2022
Press Release
SLAC’s superconducting X-ray laser reaches operating temperature colder than outer space
The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy.
LCLS-II cooldown
March 7, 2022
News Feature
Q&A: From particle beams to cancer treatment – fundamental research that affects everyday life
SLAC’s Matt Garrett and Susan Simpkins talk about tech transfer that brings innovations from the national lab to the people, including advances for medical devices and self-driving vehicles.
Tech Transfer
February 2, 2022
News Feature
A day in the life of two accelerator experts
Over the past few years, Kathleen Ratcliffe and Tien Fak Tan have worked together to help build the superconducting accelerator that will drive new scientific discoveries at SLAC’s X-ray laser.
SLAC's Tien Tan, left, and Kathleen Ratcliffe pose for a portrait outside a SLAC building.
January 27, 2022
News Feature
Researchers use attosecond X-ray pulses to track electron motion in a highly excited quantum state of matter
Less than a millionth of a billionth of a second long, attosecond X-ray pulses allow researchers to peer deep inside molecules and follow electrons as they zip around and ultimately initiate chemical reactions.
attosecond_coherent_electron_motions
September 1, 2021
News Feature
Al Ashley Fellows give advice to future scientists
Three physicists talk about how they got started, their work at SLAC and what they would say to others considering a career in STEM.
Isleydys Silva Torrecilla, Emmanuel Aneke and Bhavna Nayak
July 29, 2021
News Feature
AI learns physics to optimize particle accelerator performance
Teaching machine learning the basics of accelerator physics is particularly useful in situations where actual data don’t exist.
SSRL
June 3, 2021
News Feature
SLAC’s Panofsky fellows talk about what makes their research so exciting
From the invisible world of elementary particles to the mysteries of the cosmos, recipients of this prestigious award for early career scientists explore nature at every level.
Panofsky fellows
March 24, 2021
News Brief
New machine learning tool diagnoses electron beams in an efficient, non-invasive way
It can help operators optimize the performance of X-ray lasers, electron microscopes, medical accelerators and other devices that depend on high-quality beams.
Virtual Diagnostics

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