With help from two small businesses, SLAC’s vintage ACE3P software is spreading its wings to make supercomputing easier and faster.

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...

A narrow two-mile long building stretches through trees and foothills.


FACET-II uses the middle third of the lab’s 2-mile-long linear accelerator


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...

FACET-II will pave the way for a future generation of particle colliders and powerful light sources


Rooftop view of Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)

