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      Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all

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News Release

American Library Association Honors Louise Addis as First Library Webmaster in U.S.

The American Library Association (ALA) has honored Louise Addis, whose innovations in information technology spawned the world's first virtual library and made her America's...

April 10, 2001
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The X-ray Laser May Soon Become a Reality

An experiment and a detailed design study recently have opened the way to the development of an x-ray laser.

July 24, 1998
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PWFA transformer

December 2, 2025
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News Brief
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New method uncovers how viruses evade immune responses — and how we might fight back

Researchers with the Doudna group used SSRL to uncover how viruses use special enzymes to evade a host's defenses. 

December 1, 2025
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News Brief

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

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

November 20, 2025  ·  4 min read
Schematic of a machine learning algorithm that reconstructs 3D images from X-ray data

SLACafé

SLACafé offers flavorful lunch, snack and beverage items for every taste made with fresh, sustainably sourced ingredients.

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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

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...

December 8, 2025  ·  9 min read
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LCLS-II

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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SLAC facility allows students to conduct research related to cancer therapy through BeamNetUS

NLCTA staff helped undergraduates from Harvey Mudd College use the facility’s electron beam to test a detector they designed. 

December 16, 2025  ·  5 min read
A team from Harvey Mudd College inside the NLCTA accelerator housing at SLAC.

Science Bowl

SLAC will be hosting two  annual Regional Science Bowls for teams of Bay Area high school and middle school students in 2026.

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

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

December 9, 2025  ·  4 min read
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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera

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...

September 8, 2020  ·  00:02:40  runtime
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