Topic: LCLS-II | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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After decades of effort, scientists have finally seen the process by which nature creates the oxygen we breathe using SLAC’s X-ray laser.

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Once built, the system could produce fast X-ray pulses ten times more powerful than ever before.

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

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After more than a decade, LCLS was upgraded to generate even more powerful X-ray laser beams. With the LCLS-II upgrade, LCLS is around 10,000...

The creation of the world's brightest X-ray

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A machine learning algorithm automatically extracts information to speed up – and extend – the study of materials with X-ray pulse pairs.

A pattern of red and yellow dots surrounded by a ring of blue dots on a black background.

News Feature

The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and...

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When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.

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Scientists use a series of magnets to transform an electron bunch into a narrow current spike which then produces a very intense attosecond X-ray...

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The first of 37 cryomodules for LCLS-II is moved off of its truck after being shipped from Fermilab. All the cryomodules were delivered...

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Drone photo of the team working on LCLS-II cryoplant.

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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.

Illustration

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

After decades of effort, scientists have finally seen the process by which nature creates the oxygen we breathe using SLAC’s X-ray laser.

Once built, the system could produce fast X-ray pulses ten times more powerful than ever before.

After more than a decade, LCLS was upgraded to generate even more powerful X-ray laser beams. With the LCLS-II upgrade, LCLS is around 10,000 times brighter and fires about 8,000 times faster. It generates up to one million pulses per...

A machine learning algorithm automatically extracts information to speed up – and extend – the study of materials with X-ray pulse pairs.

The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and met the new dean of the Doerr School of Sustainability, among other matters.

When light drives electron transfer in a molecular complex, the surrounding solvent molecules also rapidly move.

Scientists use a series of magnets to transform an electron bunch into a narrow current spike which then produces a very intense attosecond X-ray flash.

The first of 37 cryomodules for LCLS-II is moved off of its truck after being shipped from Fermilab. All the cryomodules were delivered via truck.

Drone photo of the team working on LCLS-II cryoplant.

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.

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Cryomodule lifted from truck

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Researchers capture elusive missing step in the final act of photosynthesis

Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems

The creation of the world's brightest X-ray laser

Artificial intelligence deciphers detector "clouds" to accelerate materials research

‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

Electron transfer in a molecular complex

XLEAP illustration

Cryomodule lifted from truck

Cryoplant team

Dominique White inspects a cryomodule delivered

SLAC full campus

“Supercharging” atoms with X-ray laser