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The official account of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Dept of Energy. Verify: stanford.io/3P2sIAy
Menlo Park, CAlinktr.ee/SLAC.labJoined November 2009
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Scientists saw how a molecular Ferris wheel delivers protons to cellular factories at the
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-SLAC cryoEM center. No human cell can function without these tiny machines, which cause disease when they go haywire and offer potential targets for drugs. stanford.io/3jG2DVo
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Don't keep all your eggs in one basket. Unless that basket is an unused bike helmet on a quiet campus during a global pandemic. Just be prepared for a bad case of helmet hair.
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Particle accelerators help shed light on nature’s subatomic components, film atoms and molecules during chemical reactions and create medical devices to treat cancer. Now, a SLAC team has invented a structure that could make accelerators 10 times smaller. stanford.io/2EraR4g
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💫 Almost there! After ten years of work, electrons now fly through SLAC’s new superconducting accelerator at more than 99.999% the speed of light. The lab is now just steps away from generating some of the most powerful X-ray flashes in the world. 🔗:
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Crews at SLAC have taken the first 3,200-megapixel digital photos – the largest ever taken in a single shot – with an extraordinary array of imaging sensors that will become the heart and soul of the
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Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
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A SLAC team has found a way to create cleaner and brighter X-ray pulses, improving data collection and paving the way for new kinds of experiments at X-ray laser facilities. The team looks forward to putting their idea to the test at #LCLS.
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Today we ushered our brand new soft X-ray beam into the first LCLS-II era instrument! At TMO, scientists will investigate, at the quantum level, phenomena at the heart of photosynthesis, quantum computing, and the forming and breaking of bonds governing all chemical reactions.
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Scientists at #LCLS created electronic ripples in molecules with X-ray pulses lasting only billionths of a billionth of a second. These ultrashort pulses can jumpstart chemical reactions and processes at the heart of quantum mechanics and computing.
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The world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser #LCLS isn't afraid to show its soft side. Scientists directed electrons through its new "soft" X-ray undulator to produce lower energy X-rays, which will offer insights into quantum and chemical systems.
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🐧 Like when you spot the penguin!🐧 The Mark III group poses with the detector on July 22, 1981, the year it was installed. Experiments ran until 1988 and produced 132 scientific papers, many on the charmed D meson particle.✨ #SLACTurns60
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We got a very cool delivery from
@Fermilab
this morning: the last LCLS-II cryomodule! Linked together and chilled to nearly absolute zero, these segments will accelerate electrons to almost the speed of light, powering an upgrade to #LCLS, our X-ray laser. bit.ly/3cghRiG
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Electronic circuits contain tiny switches that control the flow of electrons. A SLAC and
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-led team captured ultrafast atomic motions inside one of these switches, discovering a new state that could lead to faster, more efficient computing devices. stanford.io/3koASnC
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The @LSST camera team has installed the 1st of 21 science rafts - 3-by-3 arrays of state-of-the-art imaging sensors; together they'll take unprecedented 3.2-gigapixel images of the night sky, which, over time, will produce the world's largest astrophysical movie #visionaryscience
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🏁Getting closer!🏃 Researchers recently installed the
@VRubinObs
LSST Camera's shutter, designed and built at SLAC and shown here being lowered into the camera body📸. Once complete, the 3,200 megapixel camera will take the most detailed images of the night sky ever made🌌.
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Congrats to Auralee Edelen and Kimmy Wu, our 2020 Panofsky Fellows. They are harnessing the power of #machinelearning to transform the way scientists tune particle accelerators for experiments and solve longstanding mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology.
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🎂🎈Happy birthday to us! On April 30 60 years ago, Stanford representatives signed the SLAC construction contract. We think we've come a long way since then. (Witness the transformation between 1966 and today!) #SLACTurns60 🐛🦋
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A huge shout out to our fabulous #NationalLabs partners for helping with the upgrade to our X-ray laser (the nation's only X-ray free-electron laser facility),
@Fermilab
delivered the 1st cryomodule last week &
@BerkeleyLab
delivered the injector gun this week, thanks!
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Picture this: an X-ray camera that snaps 1,000 atomic-level pictures per second, capturing the ultrafast movements of atoms in a sample. Our ePix10k detector does just that and is ready to advance science at #LCLS and facilities around the world. stanford.io/3hiuSIt
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#LCLS is back and better than ever! With the help of our on-site team, @HasanDeMirciLab and his group at
@kocuniversity
(pic taken in 2019) kicked off the first experimental run of our upgraded #XFEL investigating if any existing drugs can be used in the fight against #COVID19.
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For decades SLAC and
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professor Z-X Shen has ridden a wave of curiosity about the strange behavior of electrons that can levitate magnets. It's been a long road, but he says a grand scientific challenge is like a puzzle you solve one piece a time.
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😎 SLAC's particle accelerator is a state-of-the-art tool that generates very powerful X-rays to take snapshots of atoms and molecules in action. 🔗 Check out this short video and click this link to learn more: stanford.io/3KfzsrE
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FACET-II is now online! Here, scientists will develop accelerator technologies for next-generation light sources and particle colliders that could enhance our understanding of ultrafast atomic processes and nature’s fundamental particles and forces.
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50 years ago today,
@PhysRevLett
published 2 articles that showed that protons are made of point-like components and proved the quark theory. SLAC’s Marty Breidenbach, then a grad student at
@MIT
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📸 Scientists used our high-speed "electron camera" to capture the fleeting transition of water into a highly reactive state, directly observing a complex important in many chemical and biological processes from cancer treatment to the tails of comets. ☄️
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A new
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facility at SLAC will couple high-power and high-energy lasers with #LCLS to produce some of the most extreme conditions seen on Earth 🌏, improving our understanding of everything from fusion energy to astrophysical phenomena.💫 🤯
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🥳SLAC is turning 60 this year (but we don't think we look a day over 59🤷). To celebrate, we're digging into our archives to look back on some of the lab's most exciting moments. Today we're reflecting on the storied life of our 2-mile-long linear accelerator, or linac for short
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How is a quantum critical point like a black hole? They're both singularities where all sorts of strange things can happen. Now SLAC scientists have found strong evidence of a QCP in a superconducting material; electrons act weirdly as they near it.
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Honey we shrunk the accelerator! Scientists from SLAC and Tel Aviv University are working on a method that could make proton accelerators 100 times smaller without giving up any of their power. Check out this slideshow to see how: flic.kr/s/aHsmN2zJxm
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Tiny magnetic whirlpools called skyrmions are spawned by electron spins, act like independent particles and could be the future of computing. X-ray laser experiments are revealing their secrets. 🤫 🤯 stanford.io/3FJUYR9
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New decade, new name: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is now the
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory (VRO), honoring a key figure in the history of the search for #DarkMatter.
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It's official, we are now the NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the first national US observatory to be named after a woman. Read the press release at ow.ly/U44650xPnhZ We're getting ready to change our social media handles...stay tuned! #AAS235
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Is dark matter warm or fuzzy or something else entirely? SLAC researchers, working as part of the Dark Energy Survey, are looking at dozens of small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way to find answers.
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“SLAC’s scientific discoveries are made possible by the diverse experiences and perspectives of our talented staff. We thank our LGBTQ+ community for their many contributions and stand together for inclusion and equity for all.” -Lab Director Chi-Chang Kao #PrideMonth #boldpeople
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SLAC research associate Adi Hanuka led the development of a new virtual diagnostic tool: a machine learning algorithm that can help optimize the performance of X-ray lasers, electron microscopes, medical accelerators and other devices. stanford.io/2PoWXEW
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