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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View of the BaBar detector (about six meters in diameter) with staff scientist Michael Kelsey analyzing problems during a shutdown...
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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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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...
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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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In this artistic rendering, a magnetic pulse (right) and X-ray laser light (left) converge on a superconductor material to study...
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This animation shows molecular building blocks joining the tip of a growing nanowire. Each block consists of a diamondoid –...
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Researchers use powerful X-rays to reveal molecular structures at the site where drug compounds interact with cell receptors. These structures...
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The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a directorate of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is an Office of Science User...
