Subject: A panoramic image taken from within Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Scope: One of the world’s brightest sources of ultraviolet and soft x-ray light
Subject: Photo of an experimental device studying magnetism and electronic structures under ultra-high vacuum at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Scope: Research X-ray radiation in protein crystallography, earth science, paleontology, materials science, chemistry, and physics.
Subject: An experimental set-up at the Soft X-Ray (SXR) material science station Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Scope: The SXR uses ultra-soft X-rays in conjunction with powerful tools such as x-ray emission, coherent imaging, resonant scattering, photoelectron spectroscopy and x-ray absorption spectroscope to take snapshots of atoms and molecules at work to understand the underlying processes in materials, technology and living things.
Subject: Resonant Elastic and Inelastic Soft X-ray Scattering (REIXS) endstation at the Canadian Light Source.
Scope: REIXS is an advanced soft x-ray scattering facility that investigates various photon-in and photon0out techniques under magnetic fields and varying temperatures.
Subject: The Target Chamber of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Scope: NIF is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device that performs nuclear fusion reactions by using lasers to heat and compress a small amount of hydrogen fuel.
Subject: An experiment at the Trident Laser Facility in Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Scope: The Trident Laser Facility uses three extremely versatile high energy neodymium-glass laser chains to study high energy density physics and fundamental laser-matter interactions.
Subject: The STAR detector at Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Scope: The STAR detector, which weighs 1,200 tons and is roughly the size of a house, specializes in tracking the thousands of particles produced by each ion collision at RHIC in search of quark-gluto plasma.
Subject: The Z Pulsed Power Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque
Scope: The Z Pulsed Power Facility, otherwise known as the Z machine, is the largest X-ray generator in the world that’s primarily used to research inertial confinement fusion (ICF).
Subject: One of the two “horns” of the MINOS neutrino experiment at Fermilab
Scope: MINOS is a particle physics experiment aimed at studying neutrino oscillations.
Subject: The Large Hardon Collider at CERN
Scope: The most celebrated particle accelerator in the world, LHC is not just the most powerful creation in its class, but the largest single machine in the world. LHC serves as a testing ground for different theories of particle physics and high-energy physics in an effort to further our understanding of reality and physical law. In 2013, LHC successfully produced what closely resembled the illusive Higgs boson.
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