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Accelerators have hundreds of thousands of components that all need to be designed, engineered, operated and maintained. Research at SLAC is paving the way to a new generation of particle acceleration technology.

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Klystrons are microwave generators. The klystrons used at SLAC are cousins to the microwave generators that heat up food in your microwave oven.

Klystron poster
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Marking the beginning of the LCLS-II era, the first phase of the major upgrade comes online.

New undulator hall
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Researchers have squeezed a high-energy electron beam into tight bundles using terahertz radiation, a promising advance in watching the ultrafast world of atoms unfold.

SLAC’s Emma Snively and Mohamed Othman at the lab’s high-speed “electron camera."
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SLAC scientists and collaborators are developing 3D copper printing techniques to build accelerator components.

3D-printed copper components
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Just as engineers once compressed some of the power of room-sized mainframes into desktop PCs, so too have the researchers shown how to pack...

This image, magnified 25,000 times, shows a section of an accelerator-on-a-chip.
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Called XLEAP, the new method will provide sharp views of electrons in chemical processes that take place in billionths of a billionth of a...

XLEAP illustration.
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Physicist Tor Raubenheimer explores the world by climbing rocks and designing particle accelerators.

Photo: Tor Raubenheimer, accelerator physicist
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Its electron beams will drive the generation of up to a million ultrabright X-ray flashes per second.

LCLS-II first electron beam
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“The Worlds Within” and “Fabrication of the Accelerator Structure,” now available digitally in high fidelity, tell the story of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s inception...

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SLAC and Stanford researchers secure support for two projects that share one goal: to reduce the side effects of radiation therapy by vastly shrinking...

Researchers at SLAC and Stanford are developing new accelerator-based technology that aims to speed up cancer radiation therapy.
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An advisory committee is evaluating proposals for first experiments at SLAC’s future FACET-II accelerator facility.

FACET-II First Electrons
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Illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.

illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.