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SLAC, RadiaBeam Build New Tool to Tweak Rainbows of X-ray Laser Light

SLAC and RadiaBeam Systems have teamed up to construct a “dechirper” that will allow scientists to adjust the “color spectrum” of X-ray pulses in...

December 3, 2014  ·  4 min read
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Searching for a Dark Light

A new experiment  is on the hunt for dark photons, hypothetical messengers of an invisible universe.

December 3, 2014
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Rattled Atoms Mimic High-temperature Superconductivity

An experiment at SLAC provided the first fleeting glimpse of the atomic structure of a material as it entered a state resembling room-temperature superconductivity...

December 4, 2014  ·  3 min read
Image - In a high-temperature superconducting material known as YBCO, light from a laser causes oxygen atoms to vibrate between layers of copper oxide in a way that favors superconductivity.
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Dr. Franklin Orr Confirmed as Under Secretary for Science and Energy

Orr's position encompasses both science and energy, including the Office of Science. SLAC is one of the national laboratories under the position's purview.

December 4, 2014
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Study May Help Slow the Spread of Flu

Understanding details of a flu antibody offers new insight for future structure-based drug discovery and novel avenues for designing vaccines.

December 8, 2014  ·  2 min read
A false color image of an influenza virus particle
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DESY's Henry Chapman Awarded Leibniz Prize for X-ray Laser Research

A scientist at Germany’s DESY lab who participated in pioneering studies at SLAC's LCLS has been awarded a scientific prize by a research foundation.

December 11, 2014  ·  1 min read
Image - Henry Chapman (DESY)
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Is the Higgs Boson a Piece of the Matter-Antimatter Puzzle?

Experiments have helped explain some of the imbalance between matter and antimatter in the universe, but not all of it. Now a SLAC theorist...

December 15, 2014  ·  3 min read
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First Direct Evidence that a Mysterious Phase of Matter Competes with High-Temperature Superconductivity

SLAC study shows the so-called ‘pseudogap’ hoards electrons that otherwise might pair up to carry current through a material with 100 percent efficiency.

December 19, 2014  ·  4 min read
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via <em>Symmetry Magazine</em>

Mirror, Mirror

After more than six years of grinding and polishing, the first-ever dual-surface mirror for a major telescope is complete.

January 12, 2015
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SLAC’s Peter Rowson Named American Physical Society Fellow

His election recognizes a long history of accomplishment that began more than two decades ago at the SLAC Linear Collider.

January 16, 2015  ·  2 min read
SLAC staff physicist Peter Rowson (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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5 Ways to Put Tiny Targets in Front of an X-ray Laser

Scientists have assembled an exotic toolbox for experiments that tap into the brightest X-rays on the planet.

February 2, 2015  ·  4 min read
Image - This illustration shows a cutaway view of a type of sample system used at the Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser that jets samples in a superthin liquid or gel stream into its X-ray pulses. This system is known as a gas dynamic virtual nozzle
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

20-Ton Magnet Heads to New York

A superconducting magnet begins its journey from SLAC laboratory in California to Brookhaven Lab in New York.

January 16, 2015
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