LCLS-II Cooldown (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

LCLS-II Cooldown

Caption

A half-mile-long stretch of tunnel in Menlo Park, California, is now colder than most of the universe. It houses a new superconducting particle accelerator, part of an upgrade project to the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser.

Credit

Jim Gensheimer, Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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