Giving Science X-Ray Vision

摘要

Science's most brilliant breakthroughs today happen on a scale so small that researchers can study them only with light wavelengths short enough to catch individual atoms in their beam. The international race to build light sources capable of such illumination has begun, and the Linear Accelerator Center operated by Stanford University is in position to reach the finish first. The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Menlo Park, Calif., has operated on the frontier of high-energy physics research since 1962.