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Virtual Visitor Center at SLAC

Experiments: What we do at SLAC

The experimental facilities (past, present, and future) at SLAC make our experiments possible.

Photon Science

SSRLSSRL

SSRL is a National User Facility which provides synchrotron radiation for research in chemistry, biology, physics and materials science.

LCLSLCLS

The LCLS will be the world's first x-ray free electron laser when it becomes operational in 2009.

LUSILUSI

LUSI will build instrumentation for LCLS science thrust areas.

PULSEPULSE

PULSE will focus on ultrafast structural and electronic dynamics in atomic physics, chemistry, biology, and physics.

Particle & Particle Astrophysics

BaBARBaBar

The BaBar detector was built at SLAC to study the millions of B mesons produced by the PEP-II storage ring. The BaBar Collaboration consists of approximately 600 physicists and engineers from 75 institutions in 10 countries.

GLASTGLAST@SLAC

The Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope. The GLAST project is funded in the United States by NASA and the Department of Energy and by government agencies in France, Italy, Japan, and Sweden.

ILCILC

The International Linear Collider is a proposed future international particle accelerator. It would create high-energy particle collisions between electrons and positrons, their antimatter counterparts.

KIPACKIPAC

The Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology: Our Mission is to bridge theoretical and experimental physics communities, and bring their combined strengths to bear on some of the most challenging and fascinating problems in particle astrophysics and  cosmology.

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