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Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will collect 60 petabytes of data to address...

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Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a decades-old theory and upended our understanding of superheating.

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Water is all around us, yet its surface layer is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC’s X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

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SLUO represents scientists and engineers from universities and laboratories around the world involved in particle physics, astrophysics and accelerator physics research at SLAC.

Symmetry is an online particle physics magazine that is jointly published by Fermilab and SLAC.

A downloadable PDF fact sheet about the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the SLAC-built LSST Camera that will be used for the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

System to report and track accelerator issues (requires SLAC network or VPN).

SLAC's colloquium talks are aimed at a broad scientific and technical audience, but occasionally, those talks may be of more general interest.

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Surfing a plasma wave, electrons get an energy and brightness boost.

Illustration of electrons traveling through a plasma chamber

A downloadable PDF fact sheet about the SSRL facility at SLAC.

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Researchers find evidence of coexisting atomic stacking patterns in superionic water.

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The basics

SLAC develops and deploys some of the world’s most advanced scientific tools for exploring how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and fastest scales. Here we explain how they work and the exciting discoveries they make possible.

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera

The limit does not exist: Superheated gold survives the entropy catastrophe

SLAC researchers wield new tools to study water’s enigmatic surface

SLAC Users Organization (SLUO)

Symmetry magazine

Fact sheet: Rubin Observatory - LSST Camera

Comprehensive Accelerator Tool For Enhancing Reliability (CATER)

Colloquium Series at SLAC

SLAC and UCLA researchers build plasma accelerator that boosts electron energy and brightness at the same time

Fact sheet: Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)

This exotic form of ice just got weirder

SLAC science explained