Fine Structure

SLAC, Stanford's own linear accelerator, is undergoing serious modifications to start up their new LCLS equipment soon but apparently they have another much more revolutionary idea up their sleeves.

FACET is a proposed linear accelerator which uses plasma wakefield acceleration to achieve the same speeds that traditional magnet accelerators reach, but in a tenth of the length. It's great to see this kind of technology, which we've talked about before, finally start getting out of the lab and into the planning process.