FACET-II

SLAC Director Chi-Chang Kao spoke to the Stanford University Faculty Senate at its Feb. 21 meeting.

An advisory committee is evaluating proposals for first experiments at SLAC’s future FACET-II accelerator facility.

Three new studies show the promise and challenge of using plasma wakefield acceleration to build a future electron-positron collider.

The goal: develop plasma technologies that could shrink future accelerators up to 1,000 times, potentially paving the way for next-generation particle colliders and powerful light sources.

Two recently funded computing projects work toward developing cutting-edge scientific applications for future exascale supercomputers that can perform at least a billion billion computing operations per second.

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

A SLAC-led research team working at the lab’s FACET facility has demonstrated a new way of accelerating positrons that could help develop smaller, more economical future particle colliders.

Scientists have demonstrated that a promising technique for accelerating electrons on waves of hot plasma is efficient enough to power a new generation of shorter, more economical accelerators.