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 FACET-II will pave the way for a future generation of particle colliders and powerful light sources, opening avenues in high-energy physics, medicine, and materials, biological and energy science.

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

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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...

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Researchers will use FACET-II to develop the plasma wakefield acceleration method, in which researchers send a bunch of very energetic particles through a hot...

FACET-II science
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FACET-II will pave the way for a future generation of particle colliders and powerful light sources

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FACET-II team, May, 2018.

FACET-II Team
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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...

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

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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...

Simulation of high-energy positron acceleration in an ionized gas, or plasma
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Scientists have demonstrated that a promising technique for accelerating electrons on waves of hot plasma is efficient enough to power a new generation of...

SLAC researchers Spencer Gessner and Sebastien Corde