APEX: At the forefront of what’s needed for the next generation of light sources

(PhysOrg.com) — The focus of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Photon Injector Experiment, APEX, is an extraordinary electron gun specially designed for the front end of superconducting accelerators. When it’s complete, the APEX gun will be able to produce well-formed bunches of electrons in pulses a few trillionths or even mere quadrillionths of a second long, at rates of up to a million bunches per second.

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APEX: At the forefront of what’s needed for the next generation of light sources