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Peek Behind the Scenes at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
During a recent shutdown, engineers installed new beamline technology and a 3-D virtual tour captured rare views of the synchrotron’s interior.
SLAC’s Historic Linac Turns 50 and Gets a Makeover
The lab’s signature particle highway prepares to enter another era of transformative science as the home of the LCLS-II X-ray laser.
SLAC Partners with Palo Alto Firm to Make Klystrons Much More Efficient
Invented at SLAC, “GREEN-RF” captures and recycles energy that would otherwise go to waste in accelerating particles for research, medicine, industry and communications.
Antimatter Catches a Wave at SLAC
A SLAC-led research team working at the lab’s FACET facility has demonstrated a new way of accelerating positrons that could help develop smaller, more economical future particle colliders.
Unique SLAC Technology to Power X-ray Laser in South Korea
Scientists and engineers in South Korea will soon be using SLAC’s signature high-power radio-frequency amplifiers, called XL4 klystrons, to get the most out of their new X-ray laser.
Researchers Hit Milestone in Accelerating Particles with Plasma
Scientists have demonstrated that a promising technique for accelerating electrons on waves of hot plasma is efficient enough to power a new generation of shorter, more economical accelerators.
SLAC Scientists Win Prizes for X-ray Laser Work
Three scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have received international prizes for their achievements in free-electron laser science.
SLAC Partners with Small Businesses to Put Technology to Good Use
Researchers at SLAC collaborate with small businesses to develop technology so it can benefit the world at large.
A New Way to Create Compact Light Sources
SLAC scientists have found a new way to produce bright pulses of light from accelerated electrons that could shrink "light source" technology used around the world since the 1970s to examine details of atoms and chemical reactions
A New Way to Tune X-ray Laser Pulses
A new system at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's X-ray laser narrows a rainbow spectrum of X-ray colors to a more intense band of light, creating a much more powerful way to view fine details in samples at the scale of atoms and molecules.
