FACET-II uses the middle third of the lab’s 2-mile-long linear accelerator (SLAC ground plan at top). It sends a beam of electrons (blue line) from the electron source (bottom left) to the experimental area (bottom right), where it arrives with an energy of 10 billion electronvolts. The design allows for adding the capability to produce and accelerate positrons (bottom, red line) later.
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A prototype section of the proposed Cool Cooper Collider beam tunnel.
Aalayah Spencer inside the Linac Coherent Light Source at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
A prototype section of the proposed Cool Cooper Collider beam tunnel.
Aalayah Spencer inside the Linac Coherent Light Source at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller...
Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.
