Posted June 20, 2011
Putting ANITA on Ice
Five years ago, June/19–23/2006, scientists used a ten-ton block of ice in End Station A to calibrate the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), a radio antenna array designed to fly over the South Pole on a NASA balloon to search for ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrinos.
Posted June 13, 2011
Claudio Pellegrini: A Patriarch of the LCLS
"It takes a village," as Hillary Clinton famously wrote, "to raise a child." Similarly, says physicist Claudio Pellegrini, it takes an entire scientific community to create a ground-breaking new piece of technology—one that not only adds to the store of human knowledge through its use, but requires its designers to push back scientific and technological frontiers just to build it in the first place. The Linac Coherent Light Source is a case in point.
Posted June 13, 2011
Claudio Pellegrini at the LCLS Dedication
Claudio Pellegrini at the August 16, 2010 dedication of the LCLS.
Posted June 13, 2011
Claudio Pellegrini in the LCLS Beam Transport Hall
Claudio Pellegini stands in the Beam Transport Hall, which takes the acclerated electron beam to the Undulator Hall, where the electron bunches generate X-rays.
Posted June 10, 2011
Foil Monster Invades SSRL
Where's JJ Abrams when you need him? "The creature from SSRL Beamline 10–1" could be just the thing for his next movie.
Posted June 10, 2011
An Undulator 60 Centimeters Long
Claudio Pellegrini received this 60-centimeter-long undulator from the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow. The Russian institute was only one of his many collaborators. In 1998, Pellegrini used the tiny undulator to demonstrate that high-quality electrons beams which could produce extremely bright,...
Posted June 9, 2011
SLAC Computation Research Group Technical Memos Now Available Online
Posted May 23, 2011
First Beam through the SLAC Linac - Sector 1
SLAC Director Wolfgang "Pief" Panofsky points to a monitor and Deputy Director Matt Sands (left) looks on as the first electron beam comes through Sector 1 of SLAC's two-mile linear accelerator on May 21, 1966.
SLAC History & Lore
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