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SLAC, Berkeley Lab Researchers Prepare for Scientific Computing on the Exascale
Two recently funded computing projects work toward developing cutting-edge scientific applications for future exascale supercomputers that can perform at least a billion billion computing operations per second.
SLAC’s High-speed ‘Electron Camera’ Films Atomic Nuclei in Vibrating Molecules
Method creates new opportunities for studies of extremely fast processes in biology, chemistry and materials science.
Siemann Graduate Fellowships Help Advance Accelerator Research
Four Stanford students receive funding for work on novel accelerators and beams for SLAC's X-ray laser.
Echo Technique Developed at SLAC Could Make X-ray Lasers More Stable
Manipulating electron beams of X-ray lasers with regular laser light could potentially open up new scientific avenues.
A Plasma Tube to Bring Particles up to Speed at SLAC
Researchers have reached another milestone in the development of a promising technology that could lead to more efficient and powerful particle accelerators.
SLAC’s Historic Linac Turns 50 and Gets a Makeover
The lab’s signature particle highway prepares to enter another era of transformative science as the home of the LCLS-II X-ray laser.
SLAC Partners with Palo Alto Firm to Make Klystrons Much More Efficient
Invented at SLAC, “GREEN-RF” captures and recycles energy that would otherwise go to waste in accelerating particles for research, medicine, industry and communications.
$13.5M Moore Grant to Develop Working ‘Accelerator on a Chip’ Prototype
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $13.5 million for an international effort to build a working particle accelerator the size of a shoebox based on an innovative technology known as “accelerator on a chip.”
SLAC's Claudio Pellegrini Receives Fermi Award at White House
President Obama honored a SLAC and UCLA scientist for work that paved the way for the brightest sources of X-ray light on the planet.
Antimatter Catches a Wave at SLAC
A SLAC-led research team working at the lab’s FACET facility has demonstrated a new way of accelerating positrons that could help develop smaller, more economical future particle colliders.
