A close-upof the XL5 klystron. Manufactured by CPI, it was brought to SLAC for testing at a unique facility that can power the tube with 400,000-volt pulses. Building its own test facility would have cost the company at least...
Electrons accelerated by SLAC’s linear accelerator ender the LCLS undulator hall and run a gauntlet of 32 powerful undulators. Each undulator contains 224 magnets whose alternating poles force the electrons to zigzag violently and radiate X-rays. By the time they...
Some members of the Single Particle Imaging team, launched last year at SLAC, participated in the latest experiment in late July and early August at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser. LCLS scientist Andy Aquila (seventh from the...
This animation explains how researchers accelerate positrons with a plasma – a method that may help boost the energy and shrink the size of future linear particle colliders.
In 2019, researchers plan to replace the current dark matter experiment LUX with the more sensitive LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ). It will be located one mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, in a cavern within the former...
In this illustration, two protons collide at high energy, producing a Higgs boson that instantly decays, producing two tau particles. The rest of the energy from the collision sprays outward in two jets (pink cones). Measuring the angle between these...
