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Physicist Antimo Palano representing the BABAR experiment presented the evidence for the identification of a new subatomic particle named Ds (2317) to a packed auditorium on Monday 28th April at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).

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Transmit 6.7 Gigabytes of data — the data equivalent of 4 hours of DVD-quality movies — across 7000 miles in less than a minute? Can do.

World Record Data Transfer Speed

Physicist Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation have pledged $7.5 million to establish an institute that will focus on recent developments in astrophysics, high-energy physics and cosmology.

Blandford and Kahn

Washington D.C -- The Deutsches-Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany's leading particle physics and synchrotron radiation laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), have signed a laboratory-to-laboratory Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a unique international collaboration for...

MoU signing ceremony

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) celebrated 40 years of outstanding research into fundamental particle physics and synchrotron radiation with a special anniversary event on Oct. 2.

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Keith O. Hodgson has been named a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ernest O. Lawrence Award for 2002. Hodgson is a professor of chemistry at Stanford University and at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and is director...

Keith O. Hodgson

Ordinary alfalfa plants are being used as miniature gold factories that one day could provide the nanotechnology industry with a continuous harvest of gold nanoparticles.

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At the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Amsterdam on July 25, the BaBar collaboration working at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) announced their new measurement of a parameter known as sine two beta, that...

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Last week at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), the BABAR experiment's database stored its 500,000th Gigabyte - a milestone that makes it the largest known database in the world.

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For two weeks in February the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) was the focal point for discussion and long term planning in global high-energy physics.

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