Topic: Accelerators | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.

News Feature

They saw how the material finds a path to contorting and flexing to avoid being irreversibly crushed.

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Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019.

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Scientists use a series of magnets to transform an electron bunch into a narrow current spike which then produces a very intense attosecond X-ray...

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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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Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II).

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SLAC works with two small businesses to make its ACE3P software easier to use in supercomputer simulations for optimizing the shapes of accelerator structures.

A large, complex shape is seen against a blue background crisscrossed with white lines. The shape is dark blue and resembles a brick partially topped with a thick shark’s fin. Three areas of bright red, orange and green, are on the shape’s bottom edge.

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With help from two small businesses, SLAC’s vintage ACE3P software is spreading its wings to make supercomputing easier and faster.

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Knowing a magnet’s past will allow scientists to customize particle beams more precisely in the future. As accelerators stretch for higher levels of performance...

A magnet on a test stand inside SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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Edelen draws on machine learning to fine tune particle accelerators, while Kurinsky develops dark matter detectors informed by quantum information science.

Side by side photographs of a woman and a man.

Press Release

The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy.

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Now that the cavities have been cooled, the next step is to pump them with more than a megawatt of...

Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.

They saw how the material finds a path to contorting and flexing to avoid being irreversibly crushed.

Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019.

Scientists use a series of magnets to transform an electron bunch into a narrow current spike which then produces a very intense attosecond X-ray flash.

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 and a lot more capable.

Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II).

SLAC works with two small businesses to make its ACE3P software easier to use in supercomputer simulations for optimizing the shapes of accelerator structures.

With help from two small businesses, SLAC’s vintage ACE3P software is spreading its wings to make supercomputing easier and faster.

Knowing a magnet’s past will allow scientists to customize particle beams more precisely in the future. As accelerators stretch for higher levels of performance, understanding subtle effects, such as those introduced by magnetic history, is becoming more critical.

Edelen draws on machine learning to fine tune particle accelerators, while Kurinsky develops dark matter detectors informed by quantum information science.

The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy.

Now that the cavities have been cooled, the next step is to pump them with more than a megawatt of microwave power to accelerate the electron beam from the new source. Electrons passing through the cavities will draw energy from...

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MEC silicon

Researchers resolve decades-long debate about shock-compressed silicon with unprecedented detail

Accelerator control room

XLEAP illustration

SLAC's FACET-II test facility

Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II)

Vintage SLAC accelerator software spreads its wings

SLAC’s vintage ACE3P software

Researchers model accelerator magnets' history using machine learning approach

SLAC’s Auralee Edelen and Noah Kurinsky receive prestigious DOE Early Career Awards

SLAC’s superconducting X-ray laser reaches operating temperature colder than outer space

Cryomodule cavity

MEC silicon

Researchers resolve decades-long debate about shock-compressed silicon with unprecedented detail

Accelerator control room

XLEAP illustration

SLAC's FACET-II test facility

Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II)

Vintage SLAC accelerator software spreads its wings

SLAC’s vintage ACE3P software

Researchers model accelerator magnets' history using machine learning approach

SLAC’s Auralee Edelen and Noah Kurinsky receive prestigious DOE Early Career Awards

SLAC’s superconducting X-ray laser reaches operating temperature colder than outer space

Cryomodule cavity