Accelerators

SLAC experts discuss how microelectronics impacts our lives and where the future lies in this Q&A.

Surfing a plasma wave, electrons get an energy and brightness boost.

NLCTA staff helped undergraduates from Harvey Mudd College use the facility’s electron beam to test a detector they designed. 

Experiments running at these higher pulse rates will allow scientists to capture ultrafast processes with greater precision, collect data more efficiently and explore phenomena that were previously out of reach.

Researchers at SLAC are developing experimental techniques to evaluate new candidates for inertial fusion energy targets. 

The SLAC team is developing digital twins – powered by AI and high-performance computing – to help quickly shape high-quality particle beams for the lab’s X-ray and ultrafast facilities.

Researchers used LCLS to capture the ultrafast motion of electrons inside molecules – at scales never before possible. 

The technique could improve how scientists study materials and drive advancements in high-performance technologies, such as next-generation computer chips.

With a suite of reimagined instruments, researchers take up scientific inquiries that were out of reach just one year ago. 

Researchers used the upgraded LCLS to better understand what makes Xanthone – a powerful photocatalyst used in cancer therapies –  so efficient.  

Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a decades-old theory and upended our understanding of superheating. 

Now 10,000 times brighter and thousands of times faster, LCLS sheds light on the formation of free radicals in nature.