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 50 years of operation, one-third of the lab's historic linac is extracted to build powerful new X-ray laser DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory For the first time in more than 50 years, a ...

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 ...

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, ...

A particle accelerator's $1 billion upgrade could lead to improvements in electronic gear. Also in SLAC's sights: better batteries and cancer treatments. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

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 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 ...

A two-mile-long scientific building in California is considered the world's longest and takes around 40 minutes to walk from ...

The central hub for powerful electron beams at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is getting a makeover to prepare for the installation of LCLS-II – a major upgrade to the ...

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 ...

'The Worlds Within' and 'Fabrication of the Accelerator Structure,' now available digitally in high fidelity, tell the story of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's inception and construction DOE/SLAC ...

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is beginning construction on what will be the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, which will be known as Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II). The ...