The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a directorate of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), is an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Stanford University.
Located in Menlo Park, California, SLAC is a multiprogram national laboratory exploring frontier questions in photon science, astrophysics, biochemistry, material science, particle physics and accelerator research.