Nov.25, 2002
Invitation for visiting the SLAC(Stanford Linear Accelerator Center).
An article was posted in the Science and Health section of the San Jose
Mercury News on
Oct. 29, 2002 on “Huge Collider on Horizon”, where the
SLAC(Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, ) http://www.slac.stanford.edu/ 2575
Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025) was
introduced. The article can be seen at:
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/4393914.htm .
SLAC is an institute for the study of the High Energy Physics which was
founded in 1962
and has been supported by the Department of
Energy. A lot of interesting
experiments are
performed in the facility which is famous for the 2
mile long linear accelerator
complex which
can be seen from the highway 280 by the Sand Hill
Exit.
I’m working on the accelerator physics for UCLA , but my office is at
the SLAC, and I’m
happy to have you as a visitor and show you the
facility. Due to the security
reason, the facility
is usually not open to the general public. Anytime is OK to show you the facility,
but daytime
view is better than the nighttime view there. It’ll
take 1.0 – 1.5 hours to show the facility. Up to
10-20 visitors at a time is OK. Every visitor is required to bring
her/his picture ID. The Visitor
Center show room, the Experimental Area facilities can
be shown.
Please make an appointment with me at [email protected] or
[email protected]
(or office phone:
650-926-2146) with:
a)
(1) full name(s) of all visitors,
(2) time range(+ - 0.5-1 hour) when you can arrive at
the SLAC gate,
(Exit 280
at the Sand Hill Road EAST, make RIGHT at the 2nd light).
Please
bring PICTURE Ids (for EVERY visitors).
Yasuo Fukui
An aerial picture of the SLAC linear accelerator which runs
East-West underneath the I-280
around the Sandhill Road Exit.
A wide view of the experimental area.
A cut-out accelerator tube which is shown An example of the Experimental set-up. High energy particle beam
In the Visitor
Center. run
inside a vacuum tube.