Klystrons are microwave generators. The klystrons used at SLAC are cousins to the microwave generators that heat up food in your microwave oven – but about 60,000 times more powerful. Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation.
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A prototype section of the proposed Cool Cooper Collider beam tunnel.
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.
Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.
At left is physicist Dorian Bohler. Staff gathered in Bldg 52’s main control room on October 6, 2022 in anticipating seeing the first electrons...
