Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET) and Test Beam Facilities

PHOTO: Technician assembles camera on the FACET beam line machinery.

SLAC has spent more than five decades at the cutting edge of accelerator technology, and the lab has invested that know-how in its test beam facilities, where electron and positron beams are available to visiting scientists for basic research in a variety of fields. One goal of SLAC's own accelerator research is to make accelerators smaller and less expensive to build, and thus more accessible to a wide range of industries, from medicine to manufacturing to national security. Visit the FACET and Test Beam Facilities website »

OVERVIEW

In addition to pursuing a world-renowned research program in advanced acceleration techniques, SLAC operates four test facilities dedicated to accelerator and instrumentation research: the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET), the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA), the End Station Test Beams (ESTB) facility and the Accelerator Structure Test Area (ASTA), with more test beam facilities on the way. 

FACET EXPERIMENTS

SLAC’s accelerator test beam facilities offer an integrated suite of resources and an extremely knowledgeable staff to support the scientists who use them. FACET provides the world's brightest multipurpose electron and positron beams, while NLCTA is a small, flexible accelerator that can be quickly reconfigured to support a variety of experiments. Researchers can test detectors and other instruments at ESTB and develop new ways of powering accelerators in ASTA, which also serves SLAC's Ultrafast Electron Diffraction program.

Related links

FACET User Resources
FACET Fact Sheet (pdf)
Accelerator Directorate
Accelerator Research
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