Electron Accelerator (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Electron Accelerator

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This is an illustration of the electron accelerator of SLAC's future rapid-fire LCLS-II X-ray laser. Very cold, superconducting niobium cavities (not visible) inside a series of underground cryomodules (red tubes) boost the energy of a rapid sequence of electron bunches as they fly through the accelerator. The necessary energy for this process comes from high-power radiofrequency fields (blue) that are generated by klystrons above ground (structures at the top) and transferred to the cryomodules underground.

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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