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Accelerators form the backbone of SLAC's national user facilities. Research at SLAC is continually improving accelerators, both at SLAC and at other laboratories, and is also paving the way to a new generation of particle acceleration technology. 

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A SLAC-led research team working at the lab’s FACET facility has demonstrated a new way of accelerating positrons that could help develop smaller, more...

Simulation of high-energy positron acceleration in an ionized gas, or plasma
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Scientists and engineers in South Korea will soon be using SLAC’s signature high-power radio-frequency amplifiers, called XL4 klystrons, to get the most out of...

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A researcher interviewed SLAC and Stanford administrators, scientists and Nobel laureates and sifted through archival materials to better understand the drivers for change in...

Image - Olof Hallonsten
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The fellowship will support their research on new capabilities for the lab's X-ray free-electron lasers and new telescope technology to look for signs of...

Zeeshan Ahmed and Agostino Marinelli, SLAC's 2015 Panofsky Fellows
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Steady to a Fault

How do accelerators survive in some of the most earthquake-prone regions on Earth?

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Data collection has officially begun at the Large Hadron Collider.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

LHC Achieves Record-Energy Collisions

The Large Hadron Collider broke its own record again in 13-trillion-electronvolt test collisions.

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A new agreement paves the way for joint projects between the United States and CERN.

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A commercial X-ray source with roots in SLAC research enables multi-mode computer tomography scans that outperform routine scans in hospitals. The technique could potentially...

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Developed at SLAC’s LCLS, it could also yield new information from hard-to-study samples in materials science, chemistry and other fields.

Image - These charts show (a) the energy profile of two electron bunches that are separated by about 6 picoseconds, which are later stimulated to emit (b) two X-ray pulses separated by femtoseconds.
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A new study shows that crystals could become a valuable tool to control and manipulate electron beams in next-generation X-ray light sources and particle...

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A video campaign shows international support for construction of the International Linear Collider.