This morning Sarah took Mariela, Mariela's mentor, and me to the SLAC campus to see the SSRL: the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. It was so neat to see! Here's some pictures:
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| My temporary nametag |
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| This curved structure is the small circle where electrons are first accelerated. |
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| Once the electrons are moving fast enough, they enter this larger curved structure. In here, they release X-rays each time they change direction. |
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| The X-rays are captured in channels tangential to the main structure and eventually arrive in machines such as this one, which use the X-rays for various purposes. |
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| An example of a sample whose surface will be scanned using X-rays to determine the placement of different elements within the samples |
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