SLAC's early history: A "monster" of an idea changed how we see the universe

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is celebrating 60 years of science in 2022. This video is the first part in a series of videos celebrating SLAC’s early and recent history of various areas of the lab. This video present the early history of SLAC (1960s-1990s) and the research on particle physics that lead to multiple Nobel Prizes.

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Written, edited and produced by Olivier Bonin.

0:00 INTRO: A giant Particle Accelerator: one of the longest buildings in the world.
0:25 HISTORY: Project M for monster, a linear particle accelerator (LINAC) on Stanford Campus.
1:27 The LINAC: lead to the quark model in particle physics. 1990 Nobel Prize in physics.
2:18 SPEAR: Creation of a storage ring to increase the energy of electrons' collisions.
3:09 J/PSI: A new particle is discovered. 1976 Nobel Prize in physics.
4:08 TAU LEPTON: Another particle is discovered. 1995 Nobel Prize in physics.
5:03 X-RAY Science: SLAC transforms its accelerators into X-ray light sources.
6:16 Credits

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