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Accelerators form the backbone of SLAC’s national user facilities. They generate some of the highest quality particle beams in the world, helping thousands of scientists perform groundbreaking experiments each year.

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His election recognizes a long history of accomplishment that began more than two decades ago at the SLAC Linear Collider.

SLAC staff physicist Peter Rowson (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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SLAC and RadiaBeam Systems have teamed up to construct a “dechirper” that will allow scientists to adjust the “color spectrum” of X-ray pulses in...

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Scientists have demonstrated that a promising technique for accelerating electrons on waves of hot plasma is efficient enough to power a new generation of...

SLAC researchers Spencer Gessner and Sebastien Corde
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Accelerating the Fight Against Cancer

As charged-particle therapies grow in popularity, physicists are working with other experts to make them smaller, cheaper and more effective—and m

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Zhirong Huang, Bill Fawley and Erik Hemsing Honored at Annual Free-electron Laser Conference

Image - From left, SLAC's Erik Hemsing, Zhirong Huang and William Fawley accept awards during the 36th International Free Electron Laser Conference in Basel, Switzerland. At right is SLAC's Paul Emma, who served as this year's FEL Prize committee chairman
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Last year, a monster magnet set out from Brookhaven National Lab on an epic trek by land and sea to Fermilab, where it will...

Photo – The Muon g-2 Detector Group
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DOE-funded Program Benefits Companies, the Lab and Society

A copper acceleration cavity with an extremely thin coating of tungsten.
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Linear Accelerator Generates First Positron Beams Since 2008

Photo – FACET instruments, including plasma oven for plasma wakefield experiments.
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SLAC scientists have found a new way to produce bright pulses of light from accelerated electrons that could shrink "light source" technology used around...

A PhD student inspects the microwave undulator.
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After working with particle accelerators his entire professional career, Heather Rock Woods’ father placed himself in the path of a beam to fight cancer.

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The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel’s report, released today, recommends a strategic path forward for US particle physics.

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The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel’s recommendations will set the course for the future of particle physics in the United States.

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