Facilities & centers
At our large-scale facilities and specialized centers, scientists take advantage of powerful tools and unique expertise and collaborate with each other across a wide range of disciplines. Working together is what makes science tick.
SLAC people
To achieve our ambitious goals and keep SLAC a great place to work, the lab needs a creative, diverse and united workforce – people with a wide variety of experiences, ideas, skills and backgrounds.
SLAC news center
Recommendations for U.S. government investments in particle physics include SLAC research priorities
A new report outlines suggestions for federal investments in research programs, the U.S. technical workforce and the technology and infrastructure needed for the next generation of transformative discoveries related to fundamental physics and the origin of the universe.


Who we are
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a Department of Energy national lab run by Stanford in the heart of Silicon Valley. We invent scientific tools to explore the universe at its biggest, its smallest and its fastest.
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