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ersis Drell, deputy director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), has been appointed acting director by university President John Hennessy while the search for the successor to Jonathan Dorfan continues during the fall.

 Jonathan Dorfan

Steven Kahn, the current Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), has been named the next Director of Particle and Particle Astrophysics (PPA) at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).

David MacFarlane and Steve Kahn

The exclusive club of magnetic elements officially has a new member—carbon. Using a proton beam and advanced x-ray techniques, researchers at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leipzig in...

A carbon film is hit by a high-energy proton beam

Somebody who's racked up thousands of hours of community service has been either very bad or very good. Michael Hughes, a carpenter at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), has been very, very good.

Michael Hughes with his wife Marlene.

Just as astronomers use specialized observatories to study distant galaxies, chemists and molecular biologists need advanced tools for studying nano-scale structures—in some ways as inaccessible as the far reaches of the cosmos.

Gordon Moore

For the first time, scientists of the BaBar experiment at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have observed the transition of one type of particle, the neutral D-meson, into its antimatter particle.

BaBar collaborators William Lockman, Ray Cowan, and Brian Aagaard Petersen

Jonathan Dorfan, who has served as the director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) for nearly eight years, has announced he will step down this fall.

Jonathan Dorfan

Ghostly galaxies composed almost entirely of dark matter speckle the universe. Unlike normal galaxies, these extreme systems contain very few stars and are almost devoid of gas.

image from a supercomputer simulation shows as bright clumps the dark matter satellites

Imagine a car that accelerates from zero to 60 in 250 feet and then rockets to 120 miles per hour in just one more inch.

blue streak in this photograph shows the dramatic gain in energy made by some of the electrons

Picking a relatively simple system, scientists at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and their collaborators used advanced tools to see the very first instants of change in a solid brought to the edge of melting.

electro-optic crystal (green) placed next to the electron beam (white) in the linear accelerator