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News Release

World's Particle Physics Laboratories Join To Create New Communication Resource

Batavia, Ill.—The worldwide particle physics community today (August 12) launched Interactions.org, a new global, Web-based resource developed to provide news, high-quality imagery, video...

August 12, 2003
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SLAC Experiment Identifies New Subatomic Particle

Physicist Antimo Palano representing the BABAR experiment presented the evidence for the identification of a new subatomic particle named Ds (2317) to a packed...

April 28, 2003
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SLAC Scientists Help Set Data Transfer Speed Record

Transmit 6.7 Gigabytes of data — the data equivalent of 4 hours of DVD-quality movies — across 7000 miles in less than a minute...

February 7, 2003
World Record Data Transfer Speed
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Stanford to Receive $7.5 Million Gift for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Institute

Physicist Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation have pledged $7.5 million to establish an institute that will focus on recent developments in astrophysics, high-energy...

January 15, 2003
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German and U.S. Laboratories to Collaborate on the Development of X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Washington D.C -- The Deutsches-Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany's leading particle physics and synchrotron radiation laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center...

November 4, 2002
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World Physics Community Gathers for 40th Anniversary of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) celebrated 40 years of outstanding research into fundamental particle physics and synchrotron radiation with a special anniversary event...

October 6, 2002
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Synchrotron Lab Director Hodgson Wins E. O. Lawrence Award

Keith O. Hodgson has been named a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ernest O. Lawrence Award for 2002. Hodgson is a professor...

September 26, 2002
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Scientists Use Alfalfa Plants to Harvest Nanoparticles of Gold

Ordinary alfalfa plants are being used as miniature gold factories that one day could provide the nanotechnology industry with a continuous harvest of gold...

August 14, 2002
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From Theory to Certainty: BaBar Announces New Result on Charge Parity Violation

At the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Amsterdam on July 25, the BaBar collaboration working at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear...

July 23, 2002
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World's Largest Database Reaches 500,000 Gigabytes

Last week at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), the BABAR experiment's database stored its 500,000th Gigabyte - a milestone that makes it the...

April 12, 2002
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A New Step Toward Worldwide Collaboration on Linear Colliders

For two weeks in February the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) was the focal point for discussion and long term planning in global high-energy...

March 12, 2002
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Lab Director Chi-Chang Kao reflects on the past decade as SLAC celebrates 60th anniversary

Under his leadership, the lab diversified its research portfolio, expanded its science impact, advanced major projects, increased collaboration with Stanford and met the challenges...

December 15, 2022  ·  10 min read
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