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SLAC scientists contributed significantly to the world’s most powerful particle collider – the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on the French/Swiss border.

Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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David Cesar, Julia Gonski and W.L. Kimmy Wu will each receive $2.75 million issued over five years for their research in X-ray and ultrafast...

Early Career Award Winners 2024
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An advisory committee recommends the US work to advance three key areas of emerging accelerator technology.

Illustration of three physics-related tarot cards, labeled Proton-Proton, Muon and Plasma-Wakefield
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SLAC experimentalists and theorists collaborate to develop critical detector components, data analysis tools, and theoretical models for the HL-LHC upgrade, which will investigate the...

Eight pipes arrayed in a circle lead to a central experimental apparatus.
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A new report outlines suggestions for federal investments needed for the next generation of transformative discoveries in particle physics and cosmology, including priority projects...

A web of dark matter, in which galaxies are forming.
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Symmetry: Machine Evolution

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

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CERN and US Increase Cooperation

The United States and the European physics laboratory have formally agreed to partner on continued LHC research, upcoming neutrino research and a

Physicists are already preparing upgrades that will increase the physics reach of the Large Hadron Collider in the next decade.