SLAC’s 2-mile-long linac, the longest linear accelerator ever built, produced its first particle beams 50 years ago and has been the lab’s backbone for accelerator-driven science ever since.

"The rest of the original SLAC linac has in recent years been operated as a 2km accelerator," the project director for the new hardware (called LCLS-II), John Galayda, told Ars.

Safe and effective high explosives are critical to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) mission of stockpile ...

Tunnel digging and other major civil construction will begin in the coming fiscal year, but signs of LCLS construction are already evident at SLAC. "SLAC s got a huge advantage. We ve got the linac.

The complexity of the research happening at SLAC can be overwhelming to many visitors, as one glance at this Linac Coherent Light Source instrument demonstrates. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) The world’s first ...

Lasers for the Win Related Stories. To solve this issue, SLAC researchers compressed billions of electrons into a length less ...

Aside from shining a billion times brighter than prior technology, SLAC National Laboratory’s newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS-II) heralds trailblazing research capabilities that ...

Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has announced improvements to the X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) component of the Linac Coherent Light Source-II (LCLS-II) allowing ...

The world's most powerful X-ray laser is located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the Bay Area, and it's about to become even more powerful. "We can create much faster, much longer ...

SLAC reports first light for DOE’s grand project. 18 Sep 2023 “Victory” for the new U.S. X-ray laser, ... the Linac Coherent Light Source facility. (Linac is short for linear accelerator; coherent ...

This facility is SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). That supercooled helium helps a new part of the light source called the LCLS-II fire a record-breaking 1 million pulses of extremely ...

The complexity of the research happening at SLAC can be overwhelming to many visitors, as one glance at this Linac Coherent Light Source instrument demonstrates. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) The world’s first ...