This animation explains how researchers accelerate positrons with a plasma – a method that may help boost the energy and shrink the size of...
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Electrons accelerated by SLAC’s linear accelerator ender the LCLS undulator hall and run a gauntlet of 32 powerful undulators. Each...
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Some members of the Single Particle Imaging team, launched last year at SLAC, participated in the latest experiment in late...
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In 2019, researchers plan to replace the current dark matter experiment LUX with the more sensitive LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ). It will be located one mile...
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In this illustration, two protons collide at high energy, producing a Higgs boson that instantly decays, producing two tau particles...
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The LSST’s camera will include a filter-changing mechanism and shutter. This animation shows that mechanism at work, which allows the camera to view different...
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Ultra-bright X-ray laser pulses of the Linac Coherent Light Source
