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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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The first cryomodule has arrived at SLAC. Linked together and chilled to nearly absolute zero, 37 of these segments will accelerate electrons to almost...

A worker unveiling a cryomodule on a truck.
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Symmetry: Machine Evolution

Planning the next big science machine requires consideration of both the current landscape and the distant future.

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Innovations at SLAC, including the world’s shortest X-ray flashes, ultra-high-speed pulse trains and smart computer controls, promise to take ultrafast X-ray science to a...

Accelerators and Machine Learning
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In experiments with the lab’s ultrafast "electron camera," laser light hitting a material is almost completely converted into nuclear vibrations, which are key to...

UED Molybdenum Diselenide
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In October, SLAC installed the first of LCLS-II’s cryogenic “feed caps” and “end caps.”

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He is recognized for his numerous contributions to the advancement of accelerator physics, community service and education.

Alexander Chao
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Claudio Pellegrini, a distinguished professor emeritus of physics at UCLA and adjunct professor of photon science at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator...

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Researchers at SLAC are already looking at the largely unexplored realm of attosecond science.

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Accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli discusses how SLAC's X-ray laser makes femtosecond light.

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SLAC celebrates five days of ultrafast science.

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Join us for five days of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21.

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Sila Kiliccote, Jodi Verleger and Lydia Young demonstrate what it means to live SLAC’s values.