The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory team loading the LSST Camera on a transport cart for testing in February 2025. Courtesy Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC ...

The Linac Coherent Light Source in California has been firing record-breaking X-ray pulses for years, but now it’s due for a ...

After nearly a decade in development, the second iteration of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the DoE's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is nearly ready to start throwing photons ...

Crews cooled a tunnel housing a particle accelerator to negative 456 degrees Fahrenheit — a temperature cooler than much of space — on April 15. Part of an upgrade project to Linac Coherent Light ...

The late artist June Schwarcz found inspiration in some unusual wrapping paper her husband brought home from the lab. Leroy Schwarcz, one of the first engineers hired to build SLAC National ...

Pioneering software called ACE3P was developed almost a quarter century ago to fine-tune the design of particle accelerators and their components. Now its latest incarnation is being adapted for ...

Two videos now available digitally in high fidelity tell the story of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s inception and construction. A pair of 1964 films detailing the construction of Stanford ...

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) was originally called Stanford Linear Accelerator Center when it was established in 1962 on some land owned by Stanford University in California. SLAC is an ...

Come visit the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (usually called SLAC), on the edge of the Stanford University campus, to learn about the inner workings of its 2-mile-long accelerator, which is ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. (KGO) -- An incredible one-week experience just wrapped up for more than 20 local kids. Each of them got to spend time at one of the most advanced laboratories in the world for a ...

Alexander Chao, a professor emeritus of particle physics and astrophysics at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been recognized with the 2018 ...

What do you do with the longest building in the world once it's fulfilled the purpose you've built it for? In the case of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, you find other ways of getting ...