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A New Tool to Split X-ray Laser Pulses

A new tool at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source splits individual X-ray laser pulses into two pulses that can hit a target one right...

July 30, 2013  ·  3 min read
Photo - The assembly team for the split-and-delay sys...
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Experiment Finds Ulcer Bug's Achilles' Heel

X-rays Pinpoint Drug Target for Bacteria that Affect Hundreds of Millions Worldwide

December 10, 2012  ·  3 min read
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Researchers Demonstrate 'Accelerator on a Chip'

In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10...

September 27, 2013  ·  4 min read
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Chi-Chang Kao, Noted X-ray Scientist, Named SLAC Director

Chi-­Chang Kao, an associate laboratory director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been named as the lab's fifth director, Stanford University President John Hennessy...

October 24, 2012  ·  4 min read
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Small X-band Photoinjector Packs Powerful Punch

Accelerator physicists at SLAC have started commissioning the world’s most compact photoinjector – a device that spits out electrons when hit by light.

September 24, 2012  ·  3 min read
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Unanswered questions

Do you think scientists have the answers to all the questions? As these researchers admit, there’s still so much to discover. Particle physics is...

October 22, 2013
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SLAC Researcher Lauded for Ground-breaking Graduate Work

FACET postdoc Sébastien Corde has been recognized not once, not twice, not three times, but four times for his research into developing small, economical...

October 24, 2013  ·  2 min read
Photo – Sébastien Corde, an accelerator physicist at SLAC, accepts the John Dawson Thesis Prize from plasma physicist Robert Bingham. (Scott Green)
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The big questions

Through the “Snowmass” process, US particle physicists thoroughly considered the field’s most compelling unanswered questions and ways to realistically answer them.

October 24, 2013
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Stanford's student-built home ranks high in green building competition

Stanford's first-ever entry in the Department of Energy-sponsored green building competition finished in fifth place, the top team among Calif

October 24, 2013
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Cosmos Seeded with Heavy Elements During Violent Youth

Traces of iron spread smoothly throughout a massive galaxy cluster tell the 10 billion-year-old story of exploding supernovae and fierce outbursts from supermassive black...

October 30, 2013  ·  3 min read
Image: Illustration of some markers of the universe's turbulent youth, such as supernova explosions and active galactic nuclei (Akihiro Ikeshita).
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A New Topological Insulator Breaks Symmetry, and That's a Good Thing

Scientists working at SLAC, Stanford, Oxford, Berkeley Lab and in Tokyo have discovered a new type of quantum material whose lopsided behavior may lend...

November 4, 2013  ·  4 min read
Yulin Chen (Brad Plummer/SLAC)
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SLAC All Access: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Science Instrument

John Bozek, an instrument scientist at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source takes us behind the scenes at the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Science Instrument...

November 5, 2013
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