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Public lecture presented by Auralee Edelen

Stillframe for public lecture Super-Human Operator

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Public lecture presented by Diana Gamzina

How Science Unlocks Copper's Hidden Powers

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Public lecture presented by Giacomo Coslovich

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Public lecture presented by Christopher McGuinness

Past Event

In this public lecture, longtime SLAC physicist Greg Loew will present a trip through SLAC's origins, highlighting its scientific achievements, and provide a glimpse...

Accelerator Trouble Reporting System

The Accelerator Directorate fosters world leading accelerator science and technologies for future accelerators, while enabling user research and accelerator R&D programs today.

Two scientists in a control room full of computer monitors that allow them to adjust diamond mirrors in their CBXFEL experiment

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Klystrons are microwave generators. The klystrons used at SLAC are cousins to the microwave generators that heat up food in your microwave oven.

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Animation illustrating the concept of the Trojan horse method. An electron bunch from SLAC’s FACET facility (bright spot at right) passes through hydrogen plasma...

An electron bunch passes through hydrogen plasma

Research

Accelerators form the backbone of SLAC's national user facilities. They are complicated machines, with hundreds of thousands of components that all need to be designed, engineered, operated and maintained to achieve the highest energy acceleration and the highest quality particle...

illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.

News Feature

What could smaller particle accelerators look like in the future? SLAC scientists are working on innovations that could give more researchers access to accelerator...

This is a graphic image of particles moving through plasma during plasma wakefield acceleration.

News Feature

The algorithm pairs machine-learning techniques with classical beam physics equations to avoid massive data crunching.

Who we are

SLAC science explained

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Careers at SLAC

The Fundamental Universe, Looking for Zebras, and the World’s Largest Demolition Derby

Super-Human Operator: Controlling Accelerators with Machine Learning

How Science Unlocks Copper’s Hidden Powers

Making Waves in a Superconductor

Particle Accelerator on a Chip

Big Machines and Big Science: 80 Years of Accelerators at Stanford

Comprehensive Accelerator Tool For Enhancing Reliability (CATER)

Accelerator Directorate

Just what is a klystron?

An electron bunch passes through hydrogen plasma

Advanced accelerators

Shrinking particle accelerators with cold plasma and a large picnic basket

Researchers develop clever algorithm to improve our understanding of particle beams in accelerators