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LCLS CXI | The First Molecular Movie of One of Nature’s Most Widely Used Light Sensors

February 11, 2023
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X-ray Snapshots of Flipping a Biological Switch

November 21, 2016
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X-ray Laser Animated Fly-through

August 20, 2020
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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera

Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will collect 60 petabytes of data to address...

September 8, 2020  ·  00:02:40  runtime
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The basics

SLAC science explained

SLAC develops and deploys some of the world’s most advanced scientific tools for exploring how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and fastest scales. Here we explain how they work and the exciting discoveries they make possible.

SAGE campers have fun experimenting with a Van de Graff generator
SLAC People

Meet our teams

The lab is organized into six scientific directorates, each of which plays an important role in advancing our lab, backed by our core operations teams all supporting our shared mission.

Energy Sciences Directorate team at the Battery500 Quarterly Review Meeting on May 25-26 at SLAC's Main Quad.
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LSST Camera explainer

Learn about the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the SLAC-built LSST Camera and NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in this video.

October 4, 2022  ·  00:05:58  runtime
LSST Explainer | Mapping the universe
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What is an XFEL?

Play this video for a simple explanation of what an XFEL is and what kind of research scientists can do with this engineering marvel.
September 30, 2022  ·  00:06:21  runtime
video still frame from explainer about X-ray Free Electron Lasers.
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The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera

LSST is currently under construction in Chile. The U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is leading the construction of the LSST camera...

November 1, 2016
Stillframe image of Vera Rubin Observatory
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WHERE RESEARCH HAPPENS

Facilities & centers

SLAC is known for building big sophisticated machines for teasing out the secrets of the universe. They give researchers new eyes on the world...
Facilities at SLAC with SPEAR3 at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) to the left and Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) hutch to the right.

Contact SLAC

The SLAC campus is located on 426 acres of Stanford University property, just three miles west of the university campus. The main entrance to the facility is on Sand Hill Road, just east of Interstate 280.

Science and User Support Building to the left and Arrillaga Science Center building to the right from above the Main Quad at SLAC's campus.
History

SLAC timeline

See a lab history timeline

Signing the SLAC construction contrast in 1962