Accelerator

• Beam Spot Display on TV Monitor
• Strip Beam Position Monitor
• Beam Switch Yard
• Circular Accelerators
• Cooling System
• Damping Rings
• Electron Clouds
• Electron Gun
• Klystron is a Microwave Generator
• Magnet Basics
• More About Magnets
• Microwaves, Power up the Particles
• Operations
• Positron Beam
• Electrons are Accelerated in a Copper Structure
• Your TV is an Accelerator Too!
• Vacuum System
• Views of the Klystron Gallery
• Waveguides

Cosmic Rays, Introduction

Detectors

• BaBar for the B Factory
  • More about the BaBar Detector
• SLAC Large Detector (SLD)
• Detector Elements
  • Cerenkov Detector
  • Drift Chamber
  • Liquid Argon Calorimeter
  • Vertex Detector
  • Warm Iron Calorimeter

Electron Gamma Shower (EGS)

• About EGS: Why was EGS Developed?
  • EGS and Medical Physics
  • Take a Random Walk
  • The Future of EGS
  • The History of EGS
  • Who's Who in EGS
• EGS Guided Tour
  • Stop 1: Pictorial Code for Particles
  • Stop 2: Simple Two Particle Physics Processes
  • Stop 3: Sample EGS Images
    • Image #1
    • Image #2
    •  Image #3
    • Image #4
• EGS Lab Activities
  • Exercise 1, Interactions of 0.3 MeV photons in aluminum and lead
    • Exercise 1 Sample Results
  • Exercise 2, Interactions of 10 MeV photons in aluminum and lead
    • Exercise 2 Sample Results
• Basic Simulation Tool
  • Advanced Simulation Tool
• EGS Application: Treating Cancer with Radiation
  • The Medical Problem
    • Why is radiation an effective treatment for some types of cancers?
  • The Human Body
  • The Physics Problem

GLAST LAT : Introduction

• About the LAT instrument
• Simulator

Environment: The Natural Setting

• SLAC Environment Photo Tour
  • Photo Tour
  • Blackbird
  • Black Oak
  • Blue Oak
  • Mule Deer
  • Red Tailed Hawk
  • Hummingbird
  • Jasper Ridge
  • Live Oak
  • California Quail
  • Treescape
  • Treescape
  • Valley Oak
  • Woodpecker

Experiments: What we do at SLAC

• Experimental Facilities
  • B Factory and PEP-II
  • BaBar Detector
  • End Station A (ESA)
  • Final Focus Test Beam (FFTB)
  • Next Linear Collider Test Facility (NLCTA)
  • Positron Electron Project (PEP)
  • SLAC Linear Collider (SLC)
  • SLAC Large Detector (SLD)
  • SPEAR Storage Ring

Glossary

High Energy Cosmic Rays

•  ...and the Atmosphere
• ...and the Sun
• ...and Supernovae
• SLAC's Cosmic Ray Detector
  • Detector Parts
  • Detector Parts - Photographs
• Cosmic Ray Detector Data Center
  • Data Center Guided Tour
  • Stop 1 : Counting muons at different angles
    • Calculating Statistical Uncertainties
  • Stop 2 : Flux, a detector-independent quantity
    • Derivation of count rate to flux formula
  • Stop 3 : Count rates at different altitudes, half-life and relativity
    • About fits and chi-squared's
    • "NASA 714 Heavy Jack, you are cleared for take-off on runway 8 south"
  • Stop 4 : A model for predicting count rates at different angles
    • Estimating Gamma
    • Law of Cosines

History

• Accelerator tunnel
• Continuous concrete pour
• Klystron Gallery
• Research Yard
• Close-up of Tunnel Construction

More Educational Sites

Nobel Prizes at SLAC

• 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics - Charm: The 4th Quark
• 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics - Quarks Revealed: Structure Inside Protons and Neutrons
  • Ernest Rutherford: 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson and Cambridge (1871-1937)
• 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics - Tau: The 3rd Electron-like Particle
• 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Molecular basis of Eukaryotic Transcription

Paleoparadoxia Display

• Depiction of Paleoparadoxia in Native Habitat
• Ancient Mammal Found at SLAC
• Images of the Paleoparadoxia Fossil
• Fossil Specimens

Photo Tours

• Tour the physical Visitor Center
• Construction of SLAC
• Fossil Specimens
• Klystron Gallery
• Paleoparadoxis
• SLAC Environment

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL)

• History
• Synchrotron Radiation Interactions with Matter
• Research using Synchrotron Radiation
  • Biomedicine - Osteoporosis
  • Environmental Science
• Synchrotron Radiation Wavelength
• Other Synchrotron Radiation Laboratories

Theory

• An Additional Force
• Antiparticles
• Approximate Conservation Laws
• Building Blocks of Matter
• Charge Conjugation Invariance
• Color Charge
• Conservation Laws
• Decays
• Electromagnetic Interactions
• Electroweak Interactions
• Event Pictures
• Feynman Diagrams
• Forces and Interactions
• Fundamental Particles
• Gravitational Interactions
• Hadron Tracking
• Hadrons
• How does a calorimeter work?
• Isospin Invariance
• Leptons
• Life-Time and Half-Life
• Matter Constituents
• Parity Invariance
• Photoelectric Effect
• Quantum Mechanics
• Quarks
• Radiation
• Radioactive Decays
• Real and Virtual Particles
• Resonance and Resonant Cavities
• Special Relativity
• Spin
• Standard Model
• Strong Interactions
• Theory or a Model
• Time Reversal Invariance
• Types of Detector Tracks
• Units
• Weak Interaction Carrier Particles
• Weak Interactions
• What is an "Event"?