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Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons
Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together
Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all
Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level
Inventing new tools for science and society
Finding clean, sustainable solutions for the world’s energy challenges
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Linac Coherent Light Source
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology
Stanford PULSE Institute
Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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This joint publication of SLAC and Fermilab is your view into the world of particle physics.
LCLS Undulator Hall with both soft X-ray undulators, left, and hard X-ray undulators, right.
Annual workshop for cryo-EM developments and a poster session.
The Science and User Support Building (SUSB) is located just inside SLAC’s main gate and is a visitor’s first stop when they arrive at the lab.
A muon, center, spins like a top within the atomic lattice of a thin film of superconducting nickelate.
Catching up to Electrons on the Move
SLAC Recent History (1990s-today SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source) – The creation of a powerful X-ray laser.
The SLAC main entrance from Sand Hill Road. Science and User Support Building (SUSB) with Stanford Guest house to the left.
Drone images of cryomodule delivery from the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility on October 26, 2021.