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Inserting rafts into the focal plane of the LSST Camera was a high-stakes operation that took about six months.

video still frame of Rubin Observatory Camera Assembly TimeLapse

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FACET-II uses the middle third of the lab’s 2-mile-long linear accelerator

FACET-II

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FACET-II is the only facility in the world capable of providing high-energy electron and positron beams for researching a vast array of revolutionary accelerator...

FACET-II

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Over the course of two years, crews at SLAC installed a state-of-the-art high brightness electron source and new electron bunch compressor systems for producing...

FACET-II upgrade

Public Lecture Poster

Caterina Vernieri Public Lecture: A large camera lens

Public Lecture Poster

Public Lecture poster: picture of the universe

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The Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera will take enormously detailed images of the night sky from atop a mountain in Chile.

LSST data illustration

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The data acquisition system for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera starts right at the back of the...

LSST data acquisition system

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Public lecture presented by Diana Gamzina

How Science Unlocks Copper's Hidden Powers

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With help from two small businesses, SLAC’s vintage ACE3P software is spreading its wings to make supercomputing easier and faster.

A large, complex shape is seen against a blue background crisscrossed with white lines. The shape is dark blue and resembles a brick partially topped with a thick shark’s fin. Three areas of bright red, orange and green, are on the shape’s bottom edge.

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This animation shows how krypton (red) is removed from xenon gas (blue) by flowing the combined gases through a column...

A blue cloud with red spots travels downward, passing gray spots. As it does, the red spots move downward faster.

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SLAC is a world leader in X-ray and ultrafast science. We make our X-ray laser and synchrotron facilities available to researchers from around the...

Person standing in the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall