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Accelerator engineering

Accelerator engineering

Linac towards SLAC campus

Conceptual illustration shows an EKG-like pulse of energy flatlining as it enters a battery, then coming back to life as it exits

AI and machine learning

AI and machine learning

LCLS Undulator Hall at SLAC, March, 2020.

Accelerator operations & safety

Accelerator operations & safety

Empty undulator hall

Accelerator science

Accelerator science

This image, magnified 25,000 times, shows a section of an accelerator-on-a-chip.

Advanced accelerator R and D

Advanced accelerator R and D

FACET-II Facility

Kavli Institute for Partical Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) scientists, at work here in the "Vizlab."

Computational astrophysics

Computational astrophysics

Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen demonstrates how he works in the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC

Advanced manufacturing

Advanced manufacturing

Dwarf Galaxy 3.

Astrophysics and cosmology

Astrophysics and cosmology

Illustration from SLAC Public Lecture series titled Improving batteries from the atoms up.

Linear collider R and D

Linear collider R and D

Artist's depiction of a tiny pore in an archaea's crystalline shell

Scientists prepare for an experiment in the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) chamber.

LCLS Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC)

LCLS Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC)

This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein

Biological sciences

Biological sciences

Depiction of four techniques used to study a single-atom catalyst.

Chemistry and catalysis

Chemistry and catalysis

The EXO-200 underground detector.

Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO)

Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO)

SRCF-II construction

Computer science

Computer science

atomic arrangements of liquid silicates at the extreme conditions found in the core-mantle boundary.

Condensed-matter physics

Condensed-matter physics

COVID-19 illustration

Heavy Photon Search.

Heavy Photon Search (HPS)

Heavy Photon Search (HPS)

Illustration of SLAC's cryoplant refrigerator.

Research associate Megan Mayer and graduate student Patrick Mitchell load a sample into a cryogenic electron microscope at SLAC.

illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.

An observatory bathed in red light against a starry night sky

Rooftop view of Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)

Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)

Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)

Formation of dark matter structures.

SLAC’s Chris Kenney holds a 16-module

Aerial view of Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)

Last cryomodule unload, #41 from Fermilab F1.3-06. This one will be one of a few spares for LCLS-II.

LSST data illustration

Extremely large datasets

Extremely large datasets

Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build 158

Rubin Observatory/LSSTCam

Rubin Observatory/LSSTCam

At SLAC we are constructing the core of the biggest and fastest camera ever built to capture the Higgs boson in action.

SuperCDMS Experiment

Blackboard with equations.

Theoretical physics

Theoretical physics

PULSE graduate student Jian Chen in a laser lab at SLAC.

Concept of Matter in extreme conditions

Matter in extreme conditions

Matter in extreme conditions

Researchers at SLAC and Stanford are developing new accelerator-based technology that aims to speed up cancer radiation therapy.

Molecular movie filmstrip.

Molecular movies

Molecular movies

This illustration shows the layout of an application-specific integrated circuit, or ASIC, at an imaginary art exhibition.

Particles collide in this illustration

Particle physics

Particle physics

Highly reflective mirrors and telescope lenses in the Matter in Extreme Conditions optical laser system

Plasma physics and fusion energy science

Plasma physics and fusion energy science

FACET-II science

Plasma wakefield acceleration

Plasma wakefield acceleration

QIS public-private partnership.

Quantum information science (QIS)

Quantum information science (QIS)

Illustration of changes in a superconductor as it approaches a quantum critical point

Quantum materials

Quantum materials

SLAC Public Lecture: Seeing the Universe through Quantum Eyes

Quantum physics

Quantum physics

Ghostly X-ray images could provide key info for analyzing X-ray laser experiments.

Scientific computing

Scientific computing

Perovskites’ response to light.

Probing Molecular Dynamics in Real Time from Within with Free Electron Lasers.

Structural molecular biology

Structural molecular biology

LCLS-II cooldown illustration.

Superconductivity

Superconductivity

Aerial of the linac.

Simulation and visualization of the evolution of dark matter in the universe.

The early universe

The early universe

Scientists take first snapshots of ultrafast switching in a quantum electronic device.

Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED)

Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED)

This illustration shows how the first experiment at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser stripped away electrons from neon atoms. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Ultrafast science

Ultrafast science

An illustration shows the pocket in an enzyme called ECR where the carbon fixing reaction takes place.

X-ray crystallography

X-ray crystallography

A page of the Gutenberg Bible from 1450-1455 AD is prepped before being scanned at SSRL beamline 7-2.

$Illustration of LCLS diffraction protein crystals.$

X-ray scattering and diffraction

X-ray scattering and diffraction

atoms forming a tentative bond

X-ray crystallography

X-ray spectroscopy

X-ray spectroscopy