SLAC particle accelerator to add second x-ray laser
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029719
Ars Technica : SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the most powerful x-ray source in the world, has announced it is undertaking a $1 billion upgrade in partnership with four other national labs and Cornell University. SLAC plans to add a second x-ray laser that will be 10 000 times as bright and fire 8000 times as fast as the existing Linac Coherent Light Source. Whereas LCLS generates 120 laser pulses per second by accelerating electrons down a copper pipe, LCLS-II is expected to achieve one million pulses per second by the addition of a superconducting accelerator. Designed to work in parallel, the two lasers will allow researchers to make more detailed observations of samples and to gather data more quickly.
