The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is a U.S. national laboratory operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy. The two-mile long linear accelerator is the longest building in the United States. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories are a system of research facilities and laboratories funded and controlled by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for the purpose advancing science and aiding in the economic and defensive national interests of the United States of America. ... For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ... The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government responsible for energy policy and nuclear safety. ... A Linear particle accelerator is an electrical device for the acceleration of subatomic particles. ...

Aerial photo of the Stanford Linear Accelerator

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History

Founded in 1962, it is located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California - just down the road from Stanford University. The main accelerator is a 3 kilometer long RF linear accelerator which can accelerate electrons and positrons up to 50 GeV. It is buried 10 metres (30 feet) below ground and passes underneath Interstate 280. SLAC serves over 3,000 visiting researchers yearly, operating particle accelerators for high-energy physics and synchrotron light radiation research. 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Sand Hill Road freeway exit. ... Cafe Borrone, adjacent to Keplers Bookstore in the Menlo Center, is a popular lunch spot in downtown Menlo Park. ... A particle accelerator uses electric fields to propel charged particles to great energies. ... Properties The electron is a subatomic particle. ... The positron is the antiparticle of the electron. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE US-101 SCL 0. ... A particle accelerator uses electric fields to propel charged particles to great energies. ... Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. ... This article is mostly concerned with applications of synchrotron radiation produced by cyclic paticle accelerators. ...

Research at SLAC has produced three Nobel Prizes in Physics: List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...

• 1976 - The Charm Quark — see J/Ψ particle
• 1990 - Quark structure inside Protons and Neutrons
• 1995 - The Tauon or Tau Lepton

Since 1998 SLAC has been providing electron-positron collisions for the BaBar Experiment in order to study charge-parity symmetry. 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter in the Standard Model of particle physics. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter in the Standard Model of particle physics. ... Properties In physics, the proton (Greek proton = first) is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of one positive fundamental unit (1. ... Properties In physics, the neutron is a subatomic particle with no net electric charge and a mass of 939. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The tauon (or tau lepton) is a negatively charged elementary particle with a lifetime of 3×10−13 seconds and a high mass of 1777 MeV (compared to 939 MeV for protons and 0. ... In physics, a particle is a lepton if it has a spin of 1/2 and does not experience the strong nuclear force. ... 1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Properties The electron is a subatomic particle. ... The positron is the antiparticle of the electron. ... In the field of particle physics BaBar is an international collaboration of more than 550 physicists and engineers investigating CP-violation effects using the BaBar particle detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, Stanford, CA, USA. If the CP symmetry holds, the decay rate of B meson particles and their anti... CP-symmetry is a symmetry obtained by a combination of the C-symmetry and the P-symmetry. ...

SLAC has also been instrumental in the development of the klystron, a high-power microwave amplification tube. SLAC's meeting facilities provided a venue for the homebrew computer club and other pioneers of the 1980s home computer revolution, and later SLAC hosted the first webpage in the U.S.
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External links

• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Official webpage
• SLAC Virtual Visitors Center - including science, history, photos and more about SLAC

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