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In 1971, physicist Burton Richter of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was building a new type of particle collider called a storage ring.

soft X-ray fluorescence at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source

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In a paper published Nov. 2 in Nature Communications, a team of researchers led by University of Maryland's Ichiro Takeuchi, in collaboration with Stanford...

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While SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source was designed to push the limits as a high-energy X-ray laser, users' requests have led staff at the...

X-ray beam generated in a successful low-energy test at LCLS

Past Event

Presented by JoAnne Hewett. Extra dimensions of space may be present in our universe. Their discovery would dramatically change our view of the cosmos...

Past Event

Archimedes (287-212 BC), who is famous for shouting 'Eureka' (I found it) is considered one of the most brilliant thinkers of all times. The...

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Public lecture presented by Zeeshan Ahmed

Viewing the Beginning of Time from the Most Remote Places on Earth

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Public lecture presented by Hendrik Vogel

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The SuperCDMS dark matter experiment will be located at the Canadian laboratory SNOLAB, 2 kilometers (6,800 feet) underground inside a...

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Star trails take shape around the 14-story Mayall Telescope dome in this long-exposure image.

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SLAC associate staff scientist Thomas Joseph Lane at the Coherent X-Ray Imaging (CXI) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source...

SLAC associate staff scientist Thomas Joseph Lane at the Coherent X-Ray Imaging instrument

Past Event

Presented by Caterina Vernieri. The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 at the world’s most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in...

At SLAC we are constructing the core of the biggest and fastest camera ever built to capture the Higgs boson in action.

News Brief

Two groups of researchers drew on SLAC tools to better understand how to target a key part of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Shedding Light

SSRL Team Reports Sought-After Magnetic Properties in Common Alloy

Lower Energy Could Lead to More Biological Imaging at LCLS

Space: The Hunt for Hidden Dimensions

Archimedes: Accelerator Reveals Ancient Text

Viewing the Beginning of Time from the Most Remote Places on Earth

Axions: Ghost Riders in the Sky

SuperCDMS Location

Mayall Telescope Star Trails

Coherent X-Ray Imaging (CXI) instrument

A Camera for the Invisible: Bringing the Higgs Boson into Focus

Researchers search for clues to COVID-19 treatment with help from synchrotron X-rays