![Engineering document from archive](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-03/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20at%209.21.32%E2%80%AFAM.png?h=b69330bd&itok=PQUpuLEN)
Animation
This animation shows the results of a recent study at SLAC, in which researchers used a powerful beam of electrons to watch gold melt...
![UED Gold Melting](/sites/default/files/UED_GoldStory_technicalclip_V3.gif)
Illustration
Scientists use a series of magnets to transform an electron bunch into a narrow current spike which then produces a very intense attosecond X-ray...
![XLEAP illustration](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/xleap_leadart_final_full_0.jpg?h=2213e3e4&itok=RE6Pc5l8)
Illustration
Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.
![MEC silicon](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/mec_silicon_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=5fRShe6-)
Public Lecture Poster
Spacetime and quantum mechanics are the pillars of our modern understanding of fundamental physics.
![The end of spacetime poster](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-02/special_public_lecture_6_2018_arkani_hamed_final.jpg?h=d6bc8b36&itok=4dI3EDN4)
![A young visitor touching a Van de Graaff generator](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/electrostatics-demo-flip.jpg?h=3cdfe7ea&itok=oCnLBwXe)
Photograph
SSRL utilizes x-rays produced by its accelerator, the Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring (SPEAR3), shown in this photo from 2004.
![A View Inside SLAC's SPEAR3 Tunnel](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-03/35062000774_24d91b53f6_c.jpg?h=2179f13d&itok=5t7zhXSc)