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A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller...

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FACET-II uses the middle third of the lab’s 2-mile-long linear accelerator (SLAC ground plan at top). It sends a beam of electrons (blue line)...

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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 is the only facility in the world capable of providing high-energy electron and positron beams for researching a vast array of revolutionary accelerator...



