SLAC’s 2-mile-long linac, the longest linear accelerator ever built, produced its first particle beams 50 years ago and has been the lab’s backbone for accelerator-driven science ever since.
Aerial view of SLAC’s 2-mile-long linac. The longest linear accelerator ever built, it produced its first particle beams in 1966 and has been the lab’s backbone for accelerator-driven science ever since.
End Station A, where Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor start a series of experiments that lead to the discovery of elementary particles now known as quarks, 1967.