News tagged with linac accelerator

SLAC X-ray laser used to probe biomolecules to individual atoms

An international team led by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has proved how the world's most powerful X-ray laser can assist in cracking the structures of biomolecules, and in the processes helped to ...

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created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World's most powerful X-ray laser creates two-million-degree matter

Researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a two-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. ...

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers find world's first x-ray laser produces most coherent x-ray radiation ever

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's first x-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), first unveiled in 2009 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto California, has been undergoing testing ...

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created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Early results from the world's brightest X-ray source

The first published scientific results from experiments at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source are out. The report, published today in Physical Review Letters, is the first look at how molecules respond to ult ...

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created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Accelerators and Light Sources of Tomorrow (Part 2: Accelerating with Light)

Accelerators are far from achieving the highest energies their builders aspire to, but size and cost may limit the kinds of facilities funding agencies can support. In the future, new kinds of machines will ...

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created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Science Begins at the World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. ...

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Argonne scientists reach milestone in accelerator upgrade project

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have successfully stopped and then reaccelerated a stable ion through a newly constructed charge-breeder, bringing the CAlifornium Rare Isotope ...

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0