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SLAC’s vintage ACE3P software

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

August 22, 2022
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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Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall

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...

September 21, 2022
Person standing in the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall
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Linac towards SLAC campus

Linac towards SLAC campus. 

September 25, 2022
Linac towards SLAC campus
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Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II)

Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II).
September 25, 2022
Scientific users and staff at FACET-II
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LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2

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

September 22, 2022
Kayla Ninh at LCLS’s ChemRIX Hutch 2.2 in Near Experimental Hall.
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SLAC's FACET-II test facility

A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller...

September 26, 2022
A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility.
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Accelerator control room

Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019.
October 3, 2022
Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019
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Accelerator Control Room

At left is physicist Dorian Bohler. Staff gathered in Bldg 52’s main control room on October 6, 2022 in anticipating seeing the first electrons...

October 13, 2022
At left is physicist Dorian Bohler. Staff gathered in Bldg 52's main control room on October 6, 2022 in anticipating seeing the first electrons from LCLS-II.
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Last cryomodule for LCLS-II

Last cryomodule unload, #41 from Fermilab F1.3-06. This one will be one of a few spares for LCLS-II. 

May 19, 2021
Last cryomodule unload, #41 from Fermilab F1.3-06. This one will be one of a few spares for LCLS-II.
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FACET-II test facility

A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller...

October 21, 2022
A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility
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Particle beam traveling through an accelerator

April 21, 2023
This is a representation of a particle beam traveling through an accelerator.
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Cool Cooper Collider beam tunnel

A prototype section of the proposed Cool Cooper Collider beam tunnel.

November 2, 2023
The view down a copper tube.
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