A new device at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory allows researchers to explore the properties and dynamics of molecules with circularly polarized, or spiraling, light.

Manipulating electron beams of X-ray lasers with regular laser light could potentially open up new scientific avenues.

Researchers have reached another milestone in the development of a promising technology that could lead to more efficient and powerful particle accelerators.

The lab’s signature particle highway prepares to enter another era of transformative science as the home of the LCLS-II X-ray laser.

New ‘GREEN-RF’ Technology Recycles Energy that Would Otherwise Go to Waste in Accelerating Particles for Science, Medicine, Industry

Accelerator scientists are in demand at labs and beyond.

Computer simulations and lab experiments help researchers understand the violent universe and could potentially lead to new technologies that benefit humankind.

CERN physicist Edda Gschwendtner explains why we need big machines to study tiny particles.

Learn some particle accelerator basics from a Fermilab accelerator operator.

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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.”

Physicists are already preparing upgrades that will increase the physics reach of the Large Hadron Collider in the next decade.