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 technologies that could shrink future accelerators by factors of 100 to 1,000 and sharpen their capabilities.
Stanford postdoctoral researcher Stephen Dongmin Kang, left, demonstrates how he works at a modular glovebox workstation while Stanford postdoc Jungjin Park works at a neighboring computer in a SLAC battery lab.
A close-upof the XL5 klystron. Manufactured by CPI, it was brought to SLAC for testing at a unique facility that can power the tube with 400,000-volt pulses. Building its own test facility would have cost the company at least...