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Accelerators form the backbone of SLAC’s national user facilities. They generate some of the highest quality particle beams in the world, helping thousands of scientists perform groundbreaking experiments each year.

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Linac towards SLAC campus
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Four Stanford students receive funding for work on novel accelerators and beams for SLAC's X-ray laser.

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A new device at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory allows researchers to explore the properties and dynamics of molecules with circularly...

Electrons spiral through the Delta undulator.
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Researchers have reached another milestone in the development of a promising technology that could lead to more efficient and powerful particle accelerators.

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The lab’s signature particle highway prepares to enter another era of transformative science as the home of the LCLS-II X-ray laser.

SLAC linear accelerator building at sunset
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New ‘GREEN-RF’ Technology Recycles Energy that Would Otherwise Go to Waste in Accelerating Particles for Science, Medicine, Industry

Looking down the SLAC Klystron Gallery
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Accelerator scientists are in demand at labs and beyond.

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CERN physicist Edda Gschwendtner explains why we need big machines to study tiny particles.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Our Imperfect Vacuum

The emptiest parts of the universe aren’t so empty after all.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

How to Wrangle a Particle

Learn some particle accelerator basics from a Fermilab accelerator operator.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Festive Physicists

What’s it like working on experiments over the holidays?

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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $13.5 million for an international effort to build a working particle accelerator the size of a...

Three accelerator chips on a finger
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President Obama honored a SLAC and UCLA scientist for work that paved the way for the brightest sources of X-ray light on the planet.

Image - Claudio Pellegrini, right, talks with President Obama in the Oval Office on Tuesday. (Pete Souza/Official White House Photo)