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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.

Linac towards SLAC campus

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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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After 50 Years of Operation, One-third of the Lab’s Historic Linear Accelerator Is Extracted to Build Powerful New X-Ray Laser

photo - the empty accelerator tunnel
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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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During a recent shutdown, engineers installed new beamline technology and a 3-D virtual tour captured rare views of the synchrotron’s interior.

New in-vacuum undulator
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What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?

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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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The side-to-side motion of electrons in a beam can be circular, elliptical, or linear, depending on the position of the Delta undulator's magnet rows...

A graphic of the Delta undulator showing circular, elliptical and linear polarization of light.
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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.