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The LCLS-II Cryoplant (center) purifies and chills liquid helium to minus 456 degrees Fahrenheit and pumps it through pipes to cryomodules below ground, where it cools the superconducting accelerator to an operating temperature of 4.5 kelvins.

The SLAC main entrance from Sand Hill Road. Science and User Support Building (SUSB) with Stanford Guest house to the left.

SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall building at sunrise with Stanford University Hoover Tower in the background.

Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II).

SAGE campers constructed a motor that converts the electricity from a battery into rotational motion, 2022.

SLAC’s linac before sunset looking west.

The Science and User Support Building (SUSB) is located just inside SLAC’s main gate and is a visitor’s first stop when they arrive at the lab.

Kayla Ninh at LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2 in Near Experimental Hall. 

Dominique White takes a look at the last cryomodule for LCLS-II delivered from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Annual workshop for cryo-EM developments and a poster session.

  A synchrotron is a type of particle accelerator that produces intense beams of light. Researchers use these beams to peer deep beneath the surfaces of things and explore a wide range of scientific phenomena.