Topic: LCLS-II | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Dominique White takes a look at the last cryomodule for LCLS-II delivered from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

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Aerial view of SLAC’s campus. Stanford campus and Hoover tower can be seen in the distance.

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Ultra-bright X-ray laser pulses can be used to strip electrons away from atoms, creating ions with strong charges.

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Cryomodule installation in the LCLS tunnel

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

Cooling SLAC's linear accelerator to 2 kelvins

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En route to record-breaking X-rays, SLAC’s Cryogenic team built a helium-refrigeration plant that lowers the LCLS-II accelerator to superconducting temperatures.

Images of frost and a thermometer superimposed over an aerial view of an accelerator building.

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A cross section of the LCLS-II accelerator showing where liquid and gaseous helium flow in and out of the system.

Cross section showing pipes and liquid and gas helium

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A schematic of the LCLS-II cryoplant.

A schematic of a building with various pieces of cooling equipment.

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An extension of the Stanford Research Computing Facility will host several data centers to handle the unprecedented data streams that will be produced by...

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The Small Business Innovation Research Program brings government and private industry together to develop next-generation X-ray optics for LCLS-II.

A narrow two-mile long building stretches through trees and foothills.

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Molecular movie-making is both an art and a science; the results let us watch how nature works on the smallest scales.

Dominique White takes a look at the last cryomodule for LCLS-II delivered from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Aerial view of SLAC’s campus. Stanford campus and Hoover tower can be seen in the distance.

Ultra-bright X-ray laser pulses can be used to strip electrons away from atoms, creating ions with strong charges.

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

En route to record-breaking X-rays, SLAC’s Cryogenic team built a helium-refrigeration plant that lowers the LCLS-II accelerator to superconducting temperatures.

A cross section of the LCLS-II accelerator showing where liquid and gaseous helium flow in and out of the system.

A schematic of the LCLS-II cryoplant.

An extension of the Stanford Research Computing Facility will host several data centers to handle the unprecedented data streams that will be produced by a new generation of scientific projects.

The Small Business Innovation Research Program brings government and private industry together to develop next-generation X-ray optics for LCLS-II.

Molecular movie-making is both an art and a science; the results let us watch how nature works on the smallest scales.

LCLS-II

Dominique White inspects a cryomodule delivered

SLAC full campus

“Supercharging” atoms with X-ray laser

Cryomodule installation

Getting LCLS-II to 2 kelvins

Helium’s chilling journey to cool a particle accelerator

Cross section of cryomodule

LCLS-II cryoplant

LCLS-II 2k cooldown

SLAC expands and centralizes computing infrastructure to prepare for data challenges of the future

Collaborations with small businesses spur progress for LCLS research at SLAC

XFELs: Spying on atoms and molecules

Dominique White inspects a cryomodule delivered

SLAC full campus

“Supercharging” atoms with X-ray laser

Cryomodule installation

Getting LCLS-II to 2 kelvins

Helium’s chilling journey to cool a particle accelerator

Cross section of cryomodule

LCLS-II cryoplant

LCLS-II 2k cooldown

SLAC expands and centralizes computing infrastructure to prepare for data challenges of the future

Collaborations with small businesses spur progress for LCLS research at SLAC

XFELs: Spying on atoms and molecules