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Stanford University operates SLAC for the DOE Office of Science. Our strong ties with Stanford go all the way back to the lab’s founding. We sit on Stanford land, our people are Stanford employees and our faculty teach and mentor...

SLAC is known for building big sophisticated machines for teasing out the secrets of the universe. They give researchers new eyes on the world, spurring discoveries that spark new inventions in a continuous cycle. In our large-scale facilities and research...

Looking east down SLAC's 2-mile long linear accelerator toward Stanford and the San Francisco Bay.

The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)

SLAC aerial map

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory sits on more than 400 acres of Stanford land, just west of the main campus.

Al Ashley with internship program fellows in 2012. From left: Dorian Bohler, Manuel A. Carrasco, Al Ashley, Darius Morris, Eduardo Perez Gatica, Antonio Cedillos.

SLAC began in 1962 with construction of a 2-mile-long electron accelerator that would take particle physics to new heights. Today we are known for conducting a broad range of research, leading large-scale science projects, and welcoming scientists around the world...