Kayla Ninh at LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2 in Near Experimental Hall.
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Illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.
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Researchers will use FACET-II to develop the plasma wakefield acceleration method, in which researchers send a bunch of very energetic particles through a hot...
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The nanoscale patterns of SLAC and Stanford’s accelerator on a chip gleam in rainbow colors prior to being assembled and cut into their final...
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With help from two small businesses, SLAC’s vintage ACE3P software is spreading its wings to make supercomputing easier and faster.
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FACET-II is the only facility in the world capable of providing high-energy electron and positron beams for researching a vast array of revolutionary accelerator...
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FACET-II uses the middle third of the lab’s 2-mile-long linear accelerator
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Over the course of two years, crews at SLAC installed a state-of-the-art high brightness electron source and new electron bunch compressor systems for producing...
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FACET-II will pave the way for a future generation of particle colliders and powerful light sources
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