ATLAS Workshop/Visitor Information

SLAC Tours

SLAC Tour General Info
SLAC LINAC

SLAC communication offer a regular Public Tour twice a month that our ATLAS visitors are also welcome to take advantage of to sign up. SLAC staff can also host private tours for our visitors to tailor the visiting spot selection and timing more in tune with the visitor schedule. One important general requirement: participants must wear closed-toed shoes.

SLAC Tour Spots

While the touring spots at SLAC can be a longer list, selected main points of interests to the HEP visitors are summarized in the table below:

Klystron Gallery Alcove: showing an underground section of the SLAC linac and a view into the 2 mile long klystron gallery which is deemed a "must see" for SLAC. The bottom section of the LINAC hosts the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). The middle section is hosting the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Exprimental Tests (FACET)
End Station A: this is where the deep inelastic scattering experiment uncovered the quarks inside the nucleons (Nobel prize 1990) in the early 70s. This has been the active current SLAC test beam site which hosted regular ATLAS pixel test beam with EUDET telescope. In conjunction with the SLAC LCLS-II upgrade to a 1 MHz beam, experiment using parasitic LCLS2 pulses for Dark Photon Search (DASEL) has been proposed to be sited here. While an End Station A tour will need a local guide, you can take a walk yourself any time from Guest House to the vista point on the hill behind the Resarch Yard for the view on the right and straight on view of the Linac (see map).
LCLS Experimental Halls: At the end of the LCLS accelerator, an undulator section produces the coherent X-ray beam heading for the Near Exerimental Hall (NEH) and the Far Exerimental Hall (FEH). The experimenal hutches in NEH and FEH are popular spots for tours.
Collider Experimental Hall (CEH): hosted the MK-II and SLD experiments for the SLAC Linear Collider (SLC) that operated during the 90s for e+e- collision at the Z0 pole. Novel experimental capabilities with polarized electron beam, precision CCD pixel vertex detector and Cerenkov Ring Imaging Detector enabled precision measurements in competition with LEP. The SLD detector is still largely in situ for tours.
IR2 Clean Rooms for LSST and LZ: The Interaction Piont 2 on the PEP ring used to host the BaBar detector for the SLAC B-factory during 1999-2004. This hall is refurbished into large clean rooms hosting the construction of the camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telecope (LSST) and hosting the test platforma and liquid xenon purification plant of the LUX-Zeplin (LZ) liquid Xenon detector for Dark Matter search.
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