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Linear Accelerator Generates First Positron Beams Since 2008

Photo – FACET instruments, including plasma oven for plasma wakefield experiments.
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Machine Learning Community Takes on the Higgs

Detecting new physics isn’t quite like detecting cat videos—yet.

News Feature · VIA Stanford Magazine

Charging Ahead

SLAC and Stanford's Yi Cui leads the quest to build more energetic batteries. For SSRL's involvement, read the sidebar "Batteries: An Inside Story."

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

US Reveals Its Next Generation of Dark Matter Experiments

Together, three experiments, two with major SLAC contributions, will search for a variety of types of dark matter particles.

This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56, also known as the "bullet cluster."

SLAC, Stanford Advance Will Benefit Thousands of Computational Studies in Wide Range of Fields

Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

What’s Next for Higgs Boson Research?

Two years after the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists are still hard at work.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Physicist Shares Do-it-Yourself Expertise Online

SLAC scientist Michael Kelsey sees connections between the communities of physicists and do-it-yourselfers.

Michael Kelsey

Grad Students and Postdocs Get a Crash Course in Using X-ray Lasers

Archana Raja, a graduate student at Columbia University, explains her group’s poster presentation at SLAC’s Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar.

Two dark matter hunters with decades of experience between them are turning SLAC into their base of operations for LZ, the next big dark matter search.

Photo - Dark matter hunters Thomas Shutt (l) and Daniel Akerib.

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