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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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In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10...

Photo of two accelerator chips on the tip of a finger
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Scientists at SLAC have found a new method to create coherent beams of twisted light – light that spirals around a central axis as...

Accelerator physicist Erik Hemsing next to the NLCTA,...
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Dao Xiang, a SLAC accelerator physicist, has received an international award for his work on a technique for tuning an electron beam with a...

Dao Xiang. (Matt Beardsley/SLAC)
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Last Saturday marked the 40th anniversary of an historic event: In 1973, a team of research pioneers extracted hard X-rays for the first time...

Photo - SSRP pilot project beamline inside SPEAR, 07/06/1973. (SLAC Archives)
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A tool developed half a century ago for sorting subatomic particles has been redesigned to measure X-ray laser pulses at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light...

Patrick Krejcik and Yuantao Ding, a staff scientist and lead researcher on the XTCAV project
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John Hill watched with eager anticipation as controllers ramped up the power systems driving SLAC's X-ray laser in an attempt to achieve the record...

Photo - Linear accelerator tunnel at SLAC. (SLAC Multimedia Communications)
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Two SLAC physicists with decades of particle accelerator experience helped a Silicon Valley company design and build X-ray devices that scan cargo containers for...

Photo - Juwen Wang, left, and Roger Miller. (Credit: ...
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SLAC researchers have demonstrated for the first time how to produce pairs of X-ray laser pulses in slightly different wavelengths, or colors, with finely...

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

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