Marc Messerschmidt, a staff scientist at the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) experimental station at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, describes his daily...
![Electron superhighway](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lectures_files/publiclecture_jan2014_453.jpg?h=dc887fc4&itok=o1nmzI5F)
Photograph
View of the BaBar detector (about six meters in diameter) with staff scientist Michael Kelsey analyzing problems during a shutdown...
![BaBar detector](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/babar2_0.jpg?h=55be468c&itok=Do5VHIpR)
Photograph
Electrons accelerated by SLAC’s linear accelerator ender the LCLS undulator hall and run a gauntlet of 32 powerful undulators. Each...
![Image - The Undulator Hall at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/LCLS-Undulator-Hall.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=V5TIaz37)
![LCLS-II layout](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lclsII_stylized_layout_whitebckgrnd_forpress.jpg?h=f3bfbb6d&itok=TlFXJLIo)
Photograph
Some members of the Single Particle Imaging team, launched last year at SLAC, participated in the latest experiment in late...
![Some members of the Single Particle Imaging initiative](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/2015-0803-amocontrolroom9v2.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=PS8QGzLp)
Video
This animation explains how researchers accelerate positrons with a plasma – a method that may help boost the energy and shrink the size of...
![video stillframe of plasma wakefield acceleration with positrons](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/stillframe-plasma-wakefield-acceleration-how-it-works.jpeg?h=c673cd1c&itok=OdHj-OJo)
Video
This movie introduces LCLS-II, a future light source at SLAC. It will generate over 8,000 times more light pulses per second than today’s most...
![LCLS-II: The Next Leap for X-ray Science](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/t7jUZwhZdd0_max.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=guDcWe2Z)
Illustration
In this illustration, two protons collide at high energy, producing a Higgs boson that instantly decays, producing two tau particles...
![Higgs jet diagram](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/higgs_jets_final_updated.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=xq0XjzpJ)
Illustration
In this artistic rendering, a magnetic pulse (right) and X-ray laser light (left) converge on a superconductor material to study...
![Image - In this artistic rendering, a magnetic pulse (right) and X-ray laser light converge on a superconductor material. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/superconductor-3D-charge-density-wave-SLAC-LCLS.jpg?h=19940d61&itok=_Itj3UMx)
Animation
This animation shows molecular building blocks joining the tip of a growing nanowire. Each block consists of a diamondoid –...
![Diamondoid Assembly](/sites/default/files/diamondoid_assembly_v02.gif)
![Gravitational waves: The sound of black holes colliding](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/publiclecture_may2016_lantz.jpg?h=98fc02fa&itok=eVU1VJet)