SLAC sends off four custom-woven grids for the LUX-ZEPLIN underground dark matter detector.
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Animation illustrating the concept of the Trojan horse method. An electron bunch from SLAC’s FACET facility (bright spot at right)...
![An electron bunch passes through hydrogen plasma](/sites/default/files/trojanhorse_anim_v04.gif)
![Lecture poster](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lectures_files/publiclecture_nov2019_full_titleonly.jpg?h=98fc02fa&itok=HjtGO-BU)
![Public Lecture: Discovering the Colors of Fossil Creatures](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/public_lecture_june022020_titleonly.jpg?h=98fc02fa&itok=C5U1uBLo)
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The second phase of a major upgrade project is now online at SLAC’S Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). On Saturday...
![SXU](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lclsII_undulators_small.jpg?h=854a7be2&itok=gOgbjqol)
![Illustration of a molecular Ferris wheel delivering protons](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/rotary_proton_la_final.jpg?h=1350c8e5&itok=Tqu7B_4V)
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An illustration shows polarons – fleeting distortions in a material’s atomic lattice ––in a promising next-generation energy material, lead hybrid perovskite.
![Polarons, bubbles of distortion in a perovskite lattice.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/polaron_artwork_final_la_crop_0.jpg?h=425c9a1d&itok=ZjQN4btG)
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As this animation shows, polaronic distortions start very small and rapidly expand outward in all directions to a diameter of...
![Animation of polaronic distortions expanding in an atomic lattice](/sites/default/files/polaron_expansion_anim_final.gif)
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Artistic representation of a neural network superimposed on an electron beam profile.
![Artistic representation of a neural network superimposed on an electron beam profile](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/Adi_Hanuka_NN_Virtual_diagnostics.png?h=f2625d91&itok=d5TzVL_S)
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SLAC and Stanford scientists observed puddles of 2D superconducting behavior emerging from a 3D unconventional superconductor, which conducts electricity with...
![Illustration of a 2D superconducting state emerging in a 3D superconductor](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2d_superconductivity_puddles_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=EnQQf8XC)
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SLAC and Stanford scientists observed puddles of 2D superconducting behavior emerging from a 3D unconventional superconductor, which conducts electricity with...
![Illustration of 2D puddles of superconductivity emerging in a 3D superconductor](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2d_superconductivity_puddles_sv_final.jpg?h=a0667207&itok=IXbeRsk8)
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SLAC scientists used an improved X-ray technique to explore exotic states of matter in an unconventional superconductor that conducts electricity...
![Illustration depicting how two types of waves within superconducting materials intertwine to form a third type known as charge-density waves](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/pair_density_waves_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=Q3vgFk1p)