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He was honored for his work in ultrafast physics.

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SLAC’s LSST camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

SLAC’s LSST Camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

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Laser-driven break up of "buckyballs" is recorded in real-time by X-ray imaging at LCLS.

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Cooling SLAC's linear accelerator to 2 kelvins

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From left, SCU Physics Prof. Betty Young, Software Developer Concetta "Tina" Cartaro and Senior Staff Scientist Richard Partridge put the fourth, and final, SuperCDMS...

The fourth, and final, SuperCDMS tower is put back into its storage container

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Researchers at SLAC are developing experimental techniques to evaluate new candidates for inertial fusion energy targets.

a graphic in the style of graphic novel depicts four lasers converging on a spherical target, which represents an inertial fusion energy reaction

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The SLAC team is developing digital twins – powered by AI and high-performance computing – to help quickly shape high-quality particle beams for the...

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A new machine learning algorithm rapidly reconstructs 3D images from X-ray data.

Schematic of a machine learning algorithm that reconstructs 3D images from X-ray data

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In the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN's latest results provide the strongest constraints on low-mass WIMPs and detect boron-8...

Overhead view looking down into a white structure with dozens of orange circular components arranged radially.

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An upgrade to SLAC’s renowned Linac Coherent Light Source will allow it to deliver X-ray laser beams that are 10,000 times brighter with pulses that arrive up to a million times per second.

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Experiments running at these higher pulse rates will allow scientists to capture ultrafast processes with greater precision, collect data more efficiently and explore phenomena...

Shambhu Ghimire named American Physical Society Fellow

LSST Camera Raft Installation

Observing quantum footballs blown up by laser kicks

Getting LCLS-II to 2 kelvins

SuperCDMS tower

The ideal fusion fuel target doesn’t exist – yet. Researchers at SLAC are trying to change that.

SLAC researchers wrangle particle beams with digital doppelgängers

X-ray Laser Animated Fly-through

Imaging of tiny particles at SLAC’s X-ray laser just got faster

LZ sets a world’s best in the hunt for galactic dark matter and gets a new look at neutrinos from the sun’s core

LCLS-II

A new world record: LCLS approaches 100,000 pulses per second on the path to a million