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LSST Camera r-band optical filter

SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter, the first of six optic filters that will be part of the...

September 23, 2022
SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter.
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Arianna Gleason speaks to visitors at LCLS hutch

SLAC’s  Arianna Gleason speaks with advisors to Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouilette during a 2019 visit.

September 23, 2022
SLAC’s Arianna Gleason speaks with advisors to Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouilette
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Arrillaga Science Center

  One of the work areas inside the Arrillaga Science Center with shared workspaces and labs.
September 23, 2022
 One of the work areas inside the Arrillaga Science Center with shared workspaces and labs.
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Audience at Art Meets Science

Audience at Art Meets Science with poet Lisa Rosenberg in Kavli auditorium at SLAC. 
September 24, 2022
Audience at Art Meets Science
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Cryomodule lifted from truck

The first of 37 cryomodules for LCLS-II is moved off of its truck after being shipped from Fermilab.   All the cryomodules were delivered...

September 24, 2022
Cryomodule lifted from truck
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Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF)

Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF) on SLAC's campus. The facility supports scientific endeavors that require the handling of unprecedented data...
September 24, 2022
Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF) on SLAC's campus.
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LCLS-II cooldown

A half-mile-long stretch of tunnel in Menlo Park, California is now colder than most of the universe.

May 9, 2022
LCLS-II cooldown
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Cryomodule cavity

Now that the cavities have been cooled, the next step is to pump them with more than a megawatt of...
May 9, 2022
Cryomodule cavity animation
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Superconductor charge density coherence

May 18, 2022
A beam of light lands on a series of squiggly lines. Where the beam lands, the lines are straight.
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Preparing For the Makeover

A narrow two-mile long building stretches through trees and foothills.

May 24, 2022
A narrow two-mile long building stretches through trees and foothills.
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Nickelate stripes

June 29, 2022
Artist's illustration shows quantum states called superconductivity and charge density waves atop an atomic lattice of balls and sticks
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Nickelate stripes

An illustration shows a type of quantum matter called charge density waves, or CDWs, superimposed on the atomic structure of...
June 29, 2022
An illustration shows a latticework of sticks and balls topped by stripes made up of small glowing blobs, top left, and pairs of glowing blobs, top right.
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