SLAC Just Fired the Most Intense Submicron Electron Beam in History – Here’s What It Can Do

Scientists carefully positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful than ever before. Researchers at SLAC have achieved a major milestone in accelerator physics by creating an ultrashort electron beam with record-breaking peak current: five times greater than anything produced before. By mastering a laser-based technique, they compressed […] Read More