Animation
Now that the cavities have been cooled, the next step is to pump them with more than a megawatt of...
![Cryomodule cavity animation](/sites/default/files/lclsII_cooldown_pr_sv_rf_anim_final.gif)
![SLAC's Tien Tan, left, and Kathleen Ratcliffe pose for a portrait outside a SLAC building.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021_1115_Kathleen_Ratcliffe_Tien_Tan_Portraits_Orrell-10%20web%20version.jpeg?h=72b1671e&itok=SBr43KPI)
New technologies, such as "plasma wakefield" accelerators, can boost electrons to very high energies in very short distances. This could lead to linear accelerators that are 100 times more powerful, boosting electrons to a given energy in one hundredth the distance.
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