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Symmetry: How to Wrangle a Particle
Learn some particle accelerator basics from a Fermilab accelerator operator.
Symmetry: Festive Physicists
What’s it like working on experiments over the holidays?
$13.5M Moore Grant to Develop Working ‘Accelerator on a Chip’ Prototype
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 shoebox based on an innovative technology known as “accelerator on a chip.”
Next up: A Turbocharged LHC
Physicists are already preparing upgrades that will increase the physics reach of the Large Hadron Collider in the next decade.
SLAC's Claudio Pellegrini Receives Fermi Award at White House
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.
Jonathan Dorfan and David Hitlin Receive 2016 Panofsky Prize
The American Physical Society has recognized both researchers for their leading role in SLAC’s BABAR experiment, which confirmed theorists’ description of how nature treats matter and antimatter differently.
SLAC’s Ultrafast ‘Electron Camera’ Visualizes Ripples in 2-D Material
Using a new technology for ultrafast science, researchers have for the first time observed extremely rapid atomic motions in a three-atom-thick layer of a promising material that could be used in next-generation solar cells, electronics and catalysts.
Antimatter Catches a Wave at SLAC
A SLAC-led research team working at the lab’s FACET facility has demonstrated a new way of accelerating positrons that could help develop smaller, more economical future particle colliders.
Unique SLAC Technology to Power X-ray Laser in South Korea
Scientists and engineers in South Korea will soon be using SLAC’s signature high-power radio-frequency amplifiers, called XL4 klystrons, to get the most out of their new X-ray laser.
Social Scientist Chooses SLAC as Case Study for Transformation of 'Big Science'
A researcher interviewed SLAC and Stanford administrators, scientists and Nobel laureates and sifted through archival materials to better understand the drivers for change in SLAC’s science mission.
