The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University. Founded in 1962 as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, its two-mile-long linear accelerator was the site of the discovery of the charm quark and the tau lepton, as well as key investigations into the structure of protons and neutrons. Today, the heart of the laboratory is the Linac Coherent Light Source, and SLAC also serves atomic and solid-state physics and chemistry, biology and medicine.
CERN Courier laboratory correspondent: Melinda Lee
Read article 'BaBar celebrates its 25th anniversary'
BaBar has now chalked up more than 580 papers on CP violation and many other topics.
Read article 'First beam at SLAC plasma facility'
FACET-II, a new facility for accelerator research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, has produced its first electrons. FACET-II is an upgrade to the Facility fo...
Read article 'BaBar casts further doubt on dark photons'
Dark photons, are hypothetical low-mass spin-1 particles that couple to dark matter but have vanishing couplings with normal matter. Such a boson, which may be associated with a U(...
Read article 'Exotic hadrons bend the rules'
Fifty years have passed since Dick Dalitz presented his explicit constituent-quark model at the 1966 International Conference on High Energy Physics in Berkeley, US. Murray Gell Ma...
Read article 'LUX-ZEPLIN passes approval milestone'
A next-generation dark-matter detector in the US called LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), which will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, is on schedule to begin its deep-unde...
Read article 'Positrons catch a wave at SLAC'
In a study reported in Nature, a team working at the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET) at SLAC has shown that the high electric-field gradients possible ...