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 ...
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 ...
The Klystron Gallery at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California stretches an astonishing 1.9 miles and could be ...
The Klystron Gallery at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California is widely regarded as the world's longest building ...
Scientists are preparing to unleash an extraordinarily powerful X-ray beam that will help reveal how the universe works at the tiniest scales. The beam is made possible thanks to an upgrade to the ...
The late artist June Schwarcz found inspiration in some unusual wrapping paper her husband brought home from the lab. Leroy Schwarcz, one of the first engineers hired to build SLAC National ...
Come visit the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (usually called SLAC), on the edge of the Stanford University campus, to learn about the inner workings of its 2-mile-long accelerator, which is ...
Pioneering software called ACE3P was developed almost a quarter century ago to fine-tune the design of particle accelerators and their components. Now its latest incarnation is being adapted for ...
Tens of thousands of accelerators exist around the world, producing powerful particle beams for the benefit of medical diagnostics, cancer therapy, industrial manufacturing, material analysis, ...
What do you do with the longest building in the world once it’s fulfilled the purpose you’ve built it for? In the case of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, you find other ways of getting ...
When the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford first opened its doors in 1966, it had already earned the distinction of housing the world's longest linear accelerator: A 3.2 kilometer ...