SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Laboratory located in Menlo Park, California just north of the Silicon Valley. SLAC is home to a two mile linear accelerator (pictured below) - the largest in the world. Originally established in 1962 as a particle physics laboratory, SLAC is now home to a variety of multipurpose laboratories in the fields of astrophysics, photon science, and accerlator and particle physics research. SLAC's mission statement is to "SLAC programs explore the ultimate structure and dynamics of matter and the properties of energy, space and time - at the smallest and largest scales, in the fastest processes and at the highest energies - through robust scientific programs, excellent accelerator based user facilities and valuable partnerships."
What type of work is done at SLAC?
SLAC's research programs explore the structure and dynamics of matter and the properties of energy, space, and time—at the smallest and largest scales, in the fastest processes, and at the highest energies. Through investigations into how matter behaves on multiple timescales, length scales, and energy scales scientists can address questions that address major scientific and technological challenges affecting society at large.
Research Project Titles from Previous STAR Fellows:
- Developing Software for the Beam Line Control Systems (2012)
- Commissioning of the ASTA Laser Lab with UV Pulse Length Characterization (2012)
- Electronics Development for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (2012)
- Determining the Elemental Composition of Naturally Reduced Sediments at Old Rifle Aquifers (2012)
- The Implementation of the Shear Correlation Function and the Matter Power Spectrum in R (2012)
- Beam Halo Measurements at the SPEAR3 Synchrotron (2011)
- Characterization of Uranium Species in Sediments under Iron and Sulfate Reducing Conditions Using Synchrotron-Based Techniques (2011)
- Supernova Remnants of Cosmic Ray Acceleration (2011)
- Generation of mid-IR wavelengths (2011)
- High Quantum-Efficiency Electron Gun Tests at SSRL (2010)
- Nano-Tomography of Fuel Cell (2010)
- The Design and Testing of a Ground-Based Gamma Ray Telescopic Array (2010)
- Effective Area Validation for the Fermi Large Area Telescope (2010)
- Energy Dependence of Heavy Atom Radiation Damage in Protein Crystals (2009)
- Designing an Imager for CERN (2009)
- X-Ray Crystallography on Modern and Traditional Crystalline Materials (2009)
- Beam Diagnostics at SSRL (2009)
- Incremental Improvements to SPEAR3 Control System (2008)
- Superionic Transition (2008)
- Determining Synchrotron Electron Bunch Size with an Optical Interferometer (2008)