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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.

Linac towards SLAC campus

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Accelerator scientists are in demand at labs and beyond.

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CERN physicist Edda Gschwendtner explains why we need big machines to study tiny particles.

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Our Imperfect Vacuum

The emptiest parts of the universe aren’t so empty after all.

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How to Wrangle a Particle

Learn some particle accelerator basics from a Fermilab accelerator operator.

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Festive Physicists

What’s it like working on experiments over the holidays?

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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $13.5 million for an international effort to build a working particle accelerator the size of a...

Three accelerator chips on a finger
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President Obama honored a SLAC and UCLA scientist for work that paved the way for the brightest sources of X-ray light on the planet.

Image - Claudio Pellegrini, right, talks with President Obama in the Oval Office on Tuesday. (Pete Souza/Official White House Photo)
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The American Physical Society has recognized both researchers for their leading role in SLAC’s BABAR experiment, which confirmed theorists’ description of how nature treats...

Jonathan Dorfan and David Hitlin
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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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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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SLAC visiting scientist and consulting professor Claudio Pellegrini is honored for contributions to free-electron laser science.

Image - Claudio Pellegrini stands in the Linac Coherent Light Source Beam Transport Hall. The accelerated electron beam passes through here to the Undulator Hall, where electron bunches generate X-rays. (Michelle McCarron)