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Visitors to SLAC tour the accelerator control room during Community Day 2019.

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At left is physicist Dorian Bohler. Staff gathered in Bldg 52’s main control room on October 6, 2022 in anticipating seeing the first electrons...

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This is a representation of a particle beam traveling through an accelerator.

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FACET team.

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Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II).

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A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller...

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Two GEM Fellows reflect on their summer internships at SLAC and share their thoughts on representation and mentorship.

SLAC Experts

Areas of research: Advanced accelerators; plasma wakefield acceleration

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The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy.

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SLAC’s Matt Garrett and Susan Simpkins talk about tech transfer that brings innovations from the national lab to the people, including advances for medical...

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Teaching machine learning the basics of accelerator physics is particularly useful in situations where actual data don’t exist.

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A prototype section of the proposed Cool Cooper Collider beam tunnel.

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SLAC science explained

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Careers at SLAC

Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Accelerator control room

Accelerator Control Room

Particle beam traveling through an accelerator

FACET

Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II)

SLAC's FACET-II test facility

GEM Fellowship aims to increase representation in STEM

Mark Hogan

SLAC’s superconducting X-ray laser reaches operating temperature colder than outer space

Q&A: From particle beams to cancer treatment – fundamental research that affects everyday life

AI learns physics to optimize particle accelerator performance

Cool Cooper Collider beam tunnel