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‘Diamond rain’ on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought
Researchers at SLAC found that oxygen boosts this exotic precipitation, revealing a new path to make nanodiamonds here on Earth.
Diamond rain formation
Helium’s chilling journey to cool a particle accelerator
En route to record-breaking X-rays, SLAC’s Cryogenic team built a helium-refrigeration plant that lowers the LCLS-II accelerator to superconducting temperatures.
Images of frost and a thermometer superimposed over an aerial view of an accelerator building.
Vintage SLAC accelerator software spreads its wings
SLAC works with two small businesses to make its ACE3P software easier to use in supercomputer simulations for optimizing the shapes of accelerator structures.
A large, complex shape is seen against a blue background crisscrossed with white lines. The shape is dark blue and resembles a brick partially topped with a thick shark’s fin. Three areas of bright red, orange and green, are on the shape’s bottom edge.
How do you take a better image of atom clouds? Mirrors – lots of mirrors
To capture as much information as possible about clouds of atoms at the heart of the MAGIS-100 experiment, SLAC scientists devised a dome of mirrors that gathers more light from more angles.
an array of rainbow-tinted views of a tiny 3D object that spells
Exploring quantum electron highways with laser light
Spiraling laser light reveals how topological insulators lose their ability to conduct electric curr...
: Against a black background, thin, glowing red wires at top impinge on the hexagonal surface of a translucent mass. Small white dots travel along the edges of the surface in two directions. Within the mass, two orange cones meet at their tips.
Study finds nickelate superconductors are intrinsically magnetic
Waves of magnetic excitation sweep through this exciting new material whether it’s in superconductin...
A brightly colored top is seen spinning between two layers of gray, purple and red spheres representing atoms in a nickel oxide superconductor.
SLAC expands and centralizes computing infrastructure to prepare for data challenges of the future
An extension of the Stanford Research Computing Facility will host several data centers to handle th...
SRCF-II
A new leap in understanding nickel oxide superconductors
Researchers discover they contain a phase of quantum matter, known as charge density waves, that’s c...
Artist's illustration shows quantum states called superconductivity and charge density waves atop an atomic lattice of balls and sticks
Chelsea Bartram and Brian Lenardo named 2022 Panofsky Fellows at SLAC
They’ll work on experiments that search for dark matter particles and exotic neutrino decays that co...
side-by-side portraits of a man and a woman
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