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SLAC's full-size accelerator, dubbed the LINAC, relies on klystrons-- specialized vacuum tubes that act as radio frequency amplifiers -- to generate high-energy electron beams used in the facility ...
The SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source is now the world's brightest source of coherent ångström-wavelength X-rays. Paul Emma, the man who made this achievement possible, spoke to Nature Photonics ...
DARPA has announced its Advanced Concept Compact Electron Linear-accelerator (ACCEL) program whose goal is to develop a powerful, deployable electron LINAC. A webinar Proposers Day for potential ...
Today, we see a rented gun mount being set up at the University of Saskatchewan’s linear accelerator (LINAC), a predecessor of the Synchrotron, from Nov. 9, 1963. ( City of Saskatoon Archives ...
New 'electron gun' could help enable X-ray movies Date: November 22, 2016 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary: A low-power tabletop source of ultrashort electron beams could ...
Energy recovery linacs (ERLs) are designed to combine the best of both worlds. These devices send electrons through a linac and then guide them around a circuit back to the accelerator entrance – with ...
Physicist Erdong Wang poses next to the high-voltage electron gun he conceived of in 2017 2 / 2 An artist's concept of freed electrons slamming into an atom's nucleus ...
Ionization chamber being tested under clinical conditions at NPL. A new linear accelerator for calibrating the energy doses delivered during radiotherapy has been unveiled at the National Physical ...
In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists created a blueprint for creating ultrabright and ultrashort pulses of electron beams for the next generation of particle accelerator research.