SandHillScienceMill

The ORIGINAL Silicon Valley Accelerator. We look at the Big Bang, blow stuff up with X-rays, and are a contender for #CoolestNorCalLab. Not an official account.

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

Seriously, we're tired of having to say "SLAC; no, not the messaging service, the National Lab." @SlackHQ @SLAClab https://t.co/YBVLkAxiSj

[Justin May @CohLysion]

Much like how @SLAClab and @SlackHQ often get confused by others, it can be unclear if twitter is talking science STEM or @NI_News ‘ STEMS

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

When we started the task of reworking LCLS in preparation for superconducting accelerator structures and high rate x-ray science, we didn’t expect to have to restart during a pandemic. Now, a bit delayed, we’re back!

[Mike Dunne @MikeDunne_LCLS]

Today, the new LCLS-II "hard X-ray undulators" were tuned to achieve X-ray laser performance for the first time!

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

One of the side effects of the "shelter-in-place" order affecting the SF Bay Area is that WE ARE BACK after a long hiatus. Expect an exponential rise in #SCIENCE. Stay healthy, science friends.

[Beth - Science & Cupcakes @sciandcupcakes]

Lookin' snazzy, #LCLS! Love the new sign. @SLAClab

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

May your lights shine brightly! (Ours is off for a year, y'know, upgrades, deployment, 'move fast and break things,' Silicon Valley yadda yadda) 😆 #UNLEASHtheNIOBIUM #GLORIOUSPHOTON #LCLS

[lightsources.org @lightsources]

A special Monday -⭐️Christmas Eve⭐️- and our website brings forward 5 facilities where light shines bright:
#LCLS @SLAClab (CA, USA)
@slrithailand (Thailand)
@DiamondLightSou
(UK)
@SESAMESynch
(Jordan, picture)
#SwissFEL @psich_en
(Switzerland)

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

MUSIC TO SCIENCE BY: Local DJ and mixmaster @rectifiedmix, who visited @SLAClab earlier this year, has just released a new complextro/electro mix with a particle-physics-flavored title. Give it a listen! https://t.co/96GrOI2FbC

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

The Big Red Button has been pushed, and #LCLS @SLAClab is now offline for a year for major upgrades. The only #GLORIOUSPHOTON s that we'll be producing in 2019 will emanate from our shiny femtosecond lasers.

[Mike Dunne @MikeDunne_LCLS]

Bittersweet! The end of the final shift of the #LCLS era @SLAClab, with a successful experiment led by Petra Fromme and the team from @ASU and @desynews. Now- onwards to the new era with LCLS-II. Thank you to all our wonderful staff and users for their amazing work!

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

The Physics Photowalk is ON @SLAClab! We're exploring the depths of the linac tunnel, the SLC detector 'pit', and the LCLS and SSRL experiment hutches. Repping both #teamelectron and #teamphoton for #PhysPics18!

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

@XtalGrrl The Bay will miss you! Godspeed.

[National MagLab @NationalMagLab]

Congratulations to #TeamPhoton, the undisputed champion of the #SubatomicSmackdown. Thanks to everyone who tweeted, voted or championed a particle this week! #TeamElectron #TeamProton #TeamNeutron

[U.S. Department of Energy @ENERGY]

Let's get ready to rumble for the #SubatomicSmackdown! Are you #TeamProton, #TeamPhoton, #TeamElectron, or #TeamNeutron?

🥊 Read the tale of the tape on @SymmetryMag: https://t.co/tPsy2LkzZ5
🗳️ Vote for your favorite in @NationalMagLab's poll: https://t.co/CI9k7O0p1w

[Justin May @CohLysion]

@datXLR8Rtho @SLAClab “All right, stop… Gamma time.”
#GLORIOUSPHOTON #TeamPhoton #SubatomicSmackdown

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

@NationalMagLab #GLORIOUSPHOTON let's do this! @LCLS_alanfry @MikeDunne9 @minitti_m @merkuron @AjSolliday @bowskeyes @SLAClab @SSRLnews @yvonneastro @Freebeazy @Femtosecond15 @chichangkao @grimkat @symmetrymag @XtalGrrl @msw117r22 @squarepak

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

Obviously voting #TeamPhoton because, as all enthusiasts of #GLORIOUSPHOTON know,

“Can’t touch this.”

#SubatomicSmackdown @SLAClab #FermionsAreSlow https://t.co/NxdrgzGKId

[National MagLab @NationalMagLab]

So … who wins the #SubatomicSmackdown? You decide! Voting will stay open until 5pm:

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

@NationalMagLab @LCLS_alanfry @lukasprimahatva If you read it on anything made of conventional matter, #TeamProton and #TeamNeutron are holding up its backbone!

Unless your printer is fed by antipaper...

#SubatomicSmackdown

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

@ORNLNeutrons @ORNL @NationalMagLab @JohnsHopkins @NeutronSources Glad to see you in the ring @ORNLNeutrons! #GLORIOUSPHOTON is ready to take the punches… if Your Neutralness allows!

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

@EdwinStnr We've also been informed that Laser Raptors may not have been alive during the Viking Age. We apologize for this scientific oversight.

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

Semaphore? Photons.
Wireless Internet? Photons.
Undersea telecommunications cables? Photons.
Interplanetary space probes? Photons.
Intergalactic FTL quantum entanglement communicators? PHOTONS!

What information have YOU carried lately, fermions?

#TeamPhoton #SubatomicSmackdown

[Justin May @CohLysion]

#teamSlacLab #CoolestNorCalLab ...and we're just getting cooler.
@datXLR8Rtho @XtalGrrl @SandiaLabs @Livermore_Lab @advlightsource https://t.co/2oy9zWPkPx

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

Welcome, @ENERGY @SecretaryPerry to @SLAClab! I think you’ll find that we’re devoted followers of #SCIENCE and are just as nerdy as our friends across the Bay ( @BerkeleyLab @Livermore_Lab @SandiaLabs ), but we’re still the #CoolestNorCalLab. (Throw down, Bay area labs!)

[SandHillScienceMill @datXLR8Rtho]

.@SLAClab’s #TeamPhoton would like to shout out to #TeamElectron, without whom the SLAC linac wouldn’t exist:

“I live my life a mile at a time. Nothing else matters. For those 5 microseconds or less, I’m free.”

…and then we put you back in the ground!
#GLORIOUSPHOTON #LCLS https://t.co/CV37jr4eRd

[symmetry magazine @symmetrymag]

It's electron day! Tell us why you support #TeamElectron in the #SubatomicSmackdown (https://t.co/RAC6nlFiba) and remember to vote on Friday!