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The building boom

These projects, selected during the process to plan the future of US particle physics, are all set to come online within the next 10...

October 23, 2018
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A powerful new tool to study the cosmos

Rubin Observatory will bring new capabilities to the studies of dark matter and dark energy.

October 13, 2020
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New analysis of SuperCDMS data sets tighter detection limits for dark matter

The reanalysis considered new types of particle collisions and how dark matter particles interact with the Earth. 

July 28, 2023  ·  4 min read
clusters of galaxies collide showing separation of dark matter
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First SuperCDMS detector towers journey from SLAC to SNOLAB

The first pair of towers are now at the Ontario facility, where they'll further the hunt for dark matter particles.

May 17, 2023  ·  4 min read
SuperCDMS tower
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A New Topological Insulator Breaks Symmetry, and That's a Good Thing

Scientists working at SLAC, Stanford, Oxford, Berkeley Lab and in Tokyo have discovered a new type of quantum material whose lopsided behavior may lend...

November 4, 2013  ·  4 min read
Yulin Chen (Brad Plummer/SLAC)
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SLAC’s ACE3P Software

To find the best possible shape for an accelerator component (left), researchers often have to tweak a number of factors...
August 22, 2022
A diagram shows a curvy gray shape before (left) and after its shape is optimized by trimming away a section shown in green. A chart at center shows blue and red lines converging on an ideal target value over a number of simulation runs.
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Property control

Learn about property control at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

laptops and devices on a desktop
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Diamond rain formation

Studying a material that even more closely resembles the composition of ice giants, researchers found that oxygen boosts the formation...
September 1, 2022
Diamond rain formation
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Scales of time

Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.

April 18, 2017

Paul McIntyre

Associate Lab Director, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Directorate
Portrait of Paul McIntyre, associate lab director, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Directorate

Lisa Bonetti

Interim – Associate Lab Director, Technology Innovation Directorate
Portrait of Lisa Bonetti, Interim Associate Lab Director, Technology Innovation Directorate
Events

SLAC Conferences, Workshops & Symposia

Schedule of upcoming conferences, workshops, meetings, summer school programs at SLAC