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Accelerators form the backbone of SLAC's national user facilities. Research at SLAC is continually improving accelerators, both at SLAC and at other laboratories, and is also paving the way to a new generation of particle acceleration technology. 

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In October, SLAC installed the first of LCLS-II’s cryogenic “feed caps” and “end caps.”

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He is recognized for his numerous contributions to the advancement of accelerator physics, community service and education.

Alexander Chao
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Claudio Pellegrini, a distinguished professor emeritus of physics at UCLA and adjunct professor of photon science at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator...

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Researchers at SLAC are already looking at the largely unexplored realm of attosecond science.

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Accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli discusses how SLAC's X-ray laser makes femtosecond light.

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SLAC celebrates five days of ultrafast science.

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Join us for five days of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21.

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Sila Kiliccote, Jodi Verleger and Lydia Young demonstrate what it means to live SLAC’s values.

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The Life of an Accelerator

As it evolves, SLAC's linear accelerator illustrates some important technologies from the history of accelerator science.

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The team determined the 3-D structure of a biomolecule by tagging it with selenium atoms and taking hundreds of thousands of images.

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Two recently funded computing projects work toward developing cutting-edge scientific applications for future exascale supercomputers that can perform at least a billion billion computing...

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The prize, shared with Sekazi Mtingwa and Anton Piwinski, honors theoretical work that helped sharpen the focus of beams at a wide variety of...

SLAC theoretical physicist James D. "BJ" Bjorken