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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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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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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