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Images of frost and a thermometer superimposed over an aerial view of an accelerator building.

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A cross section of the LCLS-II accelerator showing where liquid and gaseous helium flow in and out of the system.

Cross section showing pipes and liquid and gas helium

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Drone photo of the team working on LCLS-II cryoplant.

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The Laser Science and Technology (LST) division of the LCLS provides operational support for laser systems used in the LCLS...

Scientific facility

SSRL produces extremely bright X-ray light for probing our world at the atomic and molecular level. More than 1,600 scientists from all over the world use it each year for research that spurs advances in medicine, energy production, environmental cleanup...

Using X-rays from SSRL, Chuntian Cao maps silicon as it cycles within a battery.

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The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and...

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Once built, the system could produce fast X-ray pulses ten times more powerful than ever before.

illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.

SLAC experts

Areas of research: X-ray and ultrafast science; Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); LCLS-II; molecular movies; chemical sciences; chemical dynamics; X-ray imaging; ultrafast electron diffraction...

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SLAC staff gather in the accelerator control room to celebrate first light produced by the LCLS-II project’s pioneering superconducting accelerator.

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The original LCLS undulator system was removed and replaced with two totally new systems that offer dramatic new capabilities.

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A schematic of the LCLS-II cryoplant.

Who we are

SLAC science explained

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Careers at SLAC

Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

LCLS-II 2k cooldown

Cross section of cryomodule

Cryoplant team

Amedeo Perazzo on Data Management at LCLS

LCLS laser lab

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL)

‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems

Michael Minitti

LCLS-II first light celebration

New undulator hall

LCLS-II cryoplant