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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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'Self-seeding' promises to speed discoveries, add new scientific capabilities

LCLS Self-Seeding Hardware Panorama (Photo by Matt Beardsley)
News Feature

In 1971, physicist Burton Richter of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was building a new type of particle collider called a storage ring.

soft X-ray fluorescence at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source