Article ID: CBB100710470

The reinvention of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 1992–2012 (2017)

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This article examines the most recent history of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, with particular emphasis on how this laboratory shifted its research program from accelerator-based particle physics towards astroparticle physics, cosmology and multi-disciplinary photon science. Photon science became the central experimental research program through a series of changes in the organisational, scientific, and infrastructural set-up and in its science policy context. The article shows that SLAC’s reinvention unfolded in a science policy context in which funding priorities drifted towards the materials sciences and the life sciences at the expense of nuclear and particle physics, which had dominated science budgets during the Cold War. SLAC took a lead position in this global development by partly dismantling and also redeploying scientific and technical capabilities from its particle physics program for these new fields, thus, providing novel experimental facilities for user communities to expand across academia and industry.

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Authors & Contributors
Riordan, Michael
Hallonsten, Olof
Crease, Robert P.
Katharina Christine Cramer
Hoffmann, Hans Falk
Heinze, Thomas
Concepts
Big science
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Particle accelerators
Technology
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Europe
Switzerland
Japan
Germany
China
Institutions
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (United States)
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
United States. Department of Energy
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
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