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
On the hot topic of future colliders, the P5 report endorses an off-shore Higgs factory and supports vigorous R&D toward a 10 TeV parton-centre-of-momentum collider.
Available to watch now, JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, celebrates 60 years of SLAC.
The latest Snowmass community planning exercise revealed the great opportunities present in the US and the connections to programmes in the rest of the world.
An ambitious upgrade of the US flagship X-ray free-electron laser rests on sustained cooperation with high-energy physics labs in the US, Europe and Japan.
This webinar is available to watch now, presented by SLAC accelerator physicist Pantaleo Raimondi.
Rama Calaga describes the latest progress in building the superconducting radio-frequency “crab” cavities that will increase the probability of collisions at the High-Luminosit...
Evolution, ambition and international collaboration underpin US accelerator initiatives