Goniometer (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Goniometer

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This image shows equipment used in a highly automated, robotic X-ray crystallography system at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser. The metal drum at lower left contains liquid nitrogen for cooling crystallized samples studied with LCLS's intense X-ray pulses. This setup was used in an experiment exploring the molecular machinery involved in brain signaling in atomic-scale detail.

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