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LCLS-II cryoplant

A schematic of the LCLS-II cryoplant.
August 30, 2022
A schematic of a building with various pieces of cooling equipment.
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Cross section of cryomodule

A cross section of the LCLS-II accelerator showing where liquid and gaseous helium flow in and out of the system.
August 30, 2022
Cross section showing pipes and liquid and gas helium
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Getting LCLS-II to 2 kelvins

LCLS-II’s Eric Fauve explains how the team cools the accelerator to 2 kelvins. 

August 31, 2022  ·  00:04:02  runtime
Cooling SLAC's linear accelerator to 2 kelvins
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SARS-CoV-2 protein

This image shows the SARS-CoV-2 virus's main protease, Mpro, and two strands of a human protein, called NEMO.

September 8, 2022
SARS-CoV-2-NEMO
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Diamond rain formation

Studying a material that even more closely resembles the composition of ice giants, researchers found that oxygen boosts the formation...
September 1, 2022
Diamond rain formation
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SARS-CoV-2 Mpro

September 2, 2022
This image shows how SARS-CoV-2 Mpro recognizes and cuts NEMO based on the crystal structure determined using a powerful X-ray beam at SSRL Beam Line 12-2. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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LZ xenon purification

Xenon purification system at SLAC. The two central columns are each filled with almost half a ton of charcoal, which is used to produce...

September 14, 2022
A collection of pipes, towers, and other equipment
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How krypton is removed from xenon gas

This animation shows how krypton (red) is removed from xenon gas (blue) by flowing the combined gases through a column...
September 14, 2022
A blue cloud with red spots travels downward, passing gray spots. As it does, the red spots move downward faster.
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SLAC Main Quad

From the SLAC main quad, the Science and User Support Building and the Arrillaga Science Center.

September 21, 2022
SLAC main quad, with the Science and User Support Building and the Arrillaga Science Center
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LSST Camera optical filter inspection

From left, Travis Lange, Hannah Pollek and LLNL’s Justin Wolfe inspect LSST Camera optic filters.

September 21, 2022
Inspection of the LSST Camera optical filters
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Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall

SLAC is a world leader in X-ray and ultrafast science. We make our X-ray laser and synchrotron facilities available to researchers from around the...

September 21, 2022
Person standing in the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Undulator Hall
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Undulator hall

Undulator Hall with soft X-ray undulators to the left and hard-X-ray undulators to the right.
September 22, 2022
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