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We explore radically new ideas with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Get an overview of research at SLAC: X-ray and ultrafast science, particle and astrophysics, cosmology, particle accelerators, biology, energy and technology.
Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons
Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together
Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all
Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level
Inventing new tools for science and society
Finding clean, sustainable solutions for the world’s energy challenges
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Learn more about the places where science happens at SLAC: our major facilities, institutes and centers.
Linac Coherent Light Source
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology
Stanford PULSE Institute
Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST
SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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This joint publication of SLAC and Fermilab is your view into the world of particle physics.
Reinventing the way we break down plastic waste
Thursday, March 26, 20267:00–8:00 p.m. PDT
Z-X Shen, SLAC science and technology advisor, professor of photon science and of physics, and a senior fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy...
Join us for five days of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21.
Physicist Phil Bucksbaum gives a brief introduction to Femtosecond Week at SLAC.
Ryan Coffee, scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source, explains in a video interview.
Accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli discusses how SLAC's X-ray laser makes femtosecond light.
SLAC celebrates five days of ultrafast science.
Learn about X-ray detectors from Gabriella Cabrini, scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source.
Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.
PULSE scientist Amy Cordones-Hahn describes her work on chemical reactions that turn sunlight into useable energy.
Take a digital tour of the undulators and near experimental hall at the Linac Coherent Light Source.
Read about how SLAC professor Siegfried Glenzer creates extreme conditions like those in the cores of planets and studies nuclear fusion.
Aaron Lindenberg, associate professor at Stanford and SLAC, talks about how he combines X-ray and electron techniques to understand and engineer novel materials.
