Since the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory powered up its "linac" half a century ago, the 2-mile-long particle accelerator has driven a large number of successful research ...

Did you know one of the longest buildings on the planet is in Menlo Park? And drivers speeding along Interstate 280, near Sand Hill Road, pass mere meters above it? Bay Curious listener Eric Nelson of ...

November 3, 2003--Using the unique properties of the world's longest linear accelerator (linac), researchers at the DOE Office of Science's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have made the ...

Two videos now available digitally in high fidelity tell the story of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s inception and construction. A pair of 1964 films detailing the construction of Stanford ...

Crews cooled a tunnel housing a particle accelerator to negative 456 degrees Fahrenheit — a temperature cooler than much of space — on April 15. Part of an upgrade project to Linac Coherent Light ...

LCLS-II will produce up to one million X-ray pulses per second and will be 10,000 times brighter than its predecessor. Reading time 3 minutes Engineers who have toiled on the world’s most powerful ...

After nearly a decade in development, the second iteration of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the DoE's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is nearly ready to start throwing photons ...

The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory successfully produced its first X-rays, and ...

A powerful X-Ray machine at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park is giving a special look into some historic documents. With a combination of history, science, technology and liberal arts, ...

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