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March 5, 2020

News Feature

Terahertz radiation technique opens a new door for studying atomic behavior

Researchers have squeezed a high-energy electron beam into tight bundles using terahertz radiation, a promising advance in watching the ultrafast world of atoms unfold.

February 5, 2020

News Feature

Could the next generation of particle accelerators come out of the 3D printer?

SLAC scientists and collaborators are developing 3D copper printing techniques to build accelerator components.

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.