SLAC Tours
Tours of SLAC will be given on Thursday, July 20 and Wednesday, July 26, from 2:15 to 4:00 p.m. to various research areas. Tours meet promptly at 2:00 p.m. in the breezeway in front of the auditorium where guides will escort the tour groups to the experimental site. Participants will have the opportunity to sign up for the tours in the auditorium lobby.
You will have the opportunity to visit the following sites: BaBar, the Visitor’s Alcove, the Klystron Gallery, the future site of the Linac Coherent Light Source and the Research Yard, the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, the SABER project and NLCTA.
Klystron Gallery and Overlook
Klystrons as far as the eye can see generate the microwaves which power the SLAC linac. A stop at the Visitor’s Gallery along the two mile accelerator, shows the critical linac components, explains their workings, and provides a spectacular visual experience. A “must-see” at SLAC.
SSRL and Overview of the Future LCLS Project
The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, a division of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is operated by Stanford University for the Department of Energy. SSRL is a National User Facility which provides synchrotron radiation, for a wide variety of experiments. These extremely bright x-rays can be used to investigate various forms of matter ranging from objects of atomic and molecular size to man-made materials with unusual properties. The obtained information and knowledge obtained is of great value to society, with impact in areas such as the environment, future technologies, health, and national security.
BaBar
The B-Factory is SLAC's premier high energy physics program and is investigating the matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in nature. The BaBar detector consists of a silicon vertex detector, a drift chamber, a novel particle identification system called the DIRC, a Csl electromagnetic calorimeter, and a magnet with an instrumented flux return; it looks like an organized conglomeration of steel, crystals, and wires.
