LAT Integration
10/07: The primary instrument for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), will detect gamma rays with unprecedented sensitivity, offering exceptional insight into the nature of dark matter...

LCLS Injector Installation
09/07: When it comes to ensuring the safety and success of complex projects such as the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) injector installation, thorough planning before the project even starts can make all the difference. This month...

Safety in the Bag
08/07: Where there's thoughtful communication and collaboration about safety, there's often a safety success story. For last month's SAFE07 feature story-the Final Focus Test Beam (FFTB) preservation project-the formula was no different.

FFTB Preservation Project
07/07: SLAC's evolving research yard is a bustling place. Here, just beyond the beam switch yard, End Station A runs test beams, End Station B does research and development work for the International Linear Collider and advanced accelerators...

SSRL Beamline 12
06/07: Last March, a new beam line opened at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL), thanks to three years of work by the Beam Line Development Group and about 50 designers, technicians, physicists, electricians...

BaBar Upgrade
05/07: Last winter, the BaBar detector stopped humming for four months to undergo its most complex upgrade to date. Several hundred vacuum specialists and machine physicists, accelerator technicians and riggers, surveyors...

Plating Shop
04/07: SLAC's plating shop is a high-hazard area, with multi-gallon tanks of acid, bases, heavy metals, and even cyanide-rich liquids. Yet the shop has not had a single reportable safety incident since record keeping began...