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A Primer on Particle Accelerators
What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?
Siemann Graduate Fellowships Help Advance Accelerator Research
Four Stanford students receive funding for work on novel accelerators and beams for SLAC's X-ray laser.
With Spiraling Light, SLAC X-ray Laser Offers New Glimpses of Molecules
A new device at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory allows researchers to explore the properties and dynamics of molecules with circularly polarized, or spiraling, light.
A Plasma Tube to Bring Particles up to Speed at SLAC
Researchers have reached another milestone in the development of a promising technology that could lead to more efficient and powerful particle accelerators.
SLAC’s Historic Linac Turns 50 and Gets a Makeover
The lab’s signature particle highway prepares to enter another era of transformative science as the home of the LCLS-II X-ray laser.
SLAC Partners with Palo Alto Firm to Make Klystrons Much More Efficient
Invented at SLAC, “GREEN-RF” captures and recycles energy that would otherwise go to waste in accelerating particles for research, medicine, industry and communications.
The Hottest Job in Physics?
Accelerator scientists are in demand at labs and beyond.
Symmetry: Why Are Particle Accelerators so Large?
CERN physicist Edda Gschwendtner explains why we need big machines to study tiny particles.
Symmetry: Our Imperfect Vacuum
The emptiest parts of the universe aren’t so empty after all.
Symmetry: How to Wrangle a Particle
Learn some particle accelerator basics from a Fermilab accelerator operator.
