SLAC has over 1,600 employees, including 60 members of Stanford’s faculty and many graduate students. The underground accelerator was built in the 1960s to do research on particle physics.

In October 2023, John Sarrao ’89 became the newest director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the sixth in its history. Sarrao had previously worked for 30 years at Los Alamos ...

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SLAC is home to the world’s largest digital camera The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST, camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera is the world’s largest digital camera ...

In a public lecture, SLAC fellow Chelsea Bartram presented how she uses radio waves to find dark matter axions. The axion is key to understanding a hypothetical structure of the universe.

SLAC will become a major tenant of SRCF-II – a modern data center that will provide an environment that is designed to operate 24/7 without service interruptions and with data integrity in mind.

The $168 million camera was originally completed in April 2024, and shipped to Chile in May of that year. SLAC and the Department of Energy announced on March 12, 2025, that the installation of ...

One of the world’s most powerful lasers can soon begin peering deeper into the atomic world thanks to recent, cutting-edge X-ray upgrades. Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has ...

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory hosted 21 students from Omode Middle School in Oakland for a free one-week camp.

After two decades of work, Stanford scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and their collaborators are celebrating the completion of the ...

SLAC’s MEC instrument has also enabled unique studies of extremely hot, dense matter found at the centers of stars and giant planets. The instrument’s optical lasers – one used to study hot, dynamic ...