Marc Messerschmidt, a staff scientist at the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) experimental station at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, describes his daily...
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Photograph
Celebration of SSRL’s 50th Anniversary, group photo held on main quad on April 20, 2023.
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Illustration
In this conceptual art, an electron and positron collide, resulting in a B meson (not shown) and an antimatter B-bar meson, which then decays...
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Illustration
When stars explode, the supernovas send off shock waves like the one shown in this artist's rendition, which accelerate protons...
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Video
This movie introduces LCLS-II, a future light source at SLAC. It will generate over 8,000 times more light pulses per second than today’s most...
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Illustration
In this illustration, two protons collide at high energy, producing a Higgs boson that instantly decays, producing two tau particles...
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The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a directorate of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is an Office of Science User...
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Video
Ryan Coffee, scientist at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, explains, “What is a femtosecond?”
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SLAC associate staff scientist Thomas Joseph Lane at the Coherent X-Ray Imaging (CXI) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source...
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