SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory operated by Stanford University in Menlo Park, California. Its two-mile linear accelerator, completed in 1966, was used in 1968 deep inelastic electron-proton scattering experiments that provided the first direct experimental evidence for quarks, confirming the model Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig had proposed theoretically four years earlier.
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Founded Year SeatSourced to the subject's own accountMenlo Park, California, United States 2 Connections
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The 1968 deep inelastic scattering experiments at SLAC provided the first direct experimental confirmation of the quark model.
Source Particle Pioneer Murray Gell-Mann, Who Coined the Term Quarks, Dies at 89 (Physics World)Michael Banks
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1. Particle Pioneer Murray Gell-Mann, Who Coined the Term Quarks, Dies at 89 (Physics World)
Michael Banks, Physics World, 2019Obituary, SLAC mention
Gell-Mann dubbed them quarks and they were later discovered experimentally at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the US.
- Tested By: Quark Model
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Founded in 1962 as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the facility is located on 172 ha (426 acres).
In Group: Federally Funded and University-Affiliated Research Centers, Lead
is a federally funded research and development center in Menlo Park, California, United States
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Infobox workplaces: University of Michigan ; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC); University of Liverpool
Roger Blandford - Wikipedia
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Infobox workplaces: California Institute of Technology; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Stanford University; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
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Infobox workplaces: Fermilab; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Harish-Chandra Research Institute; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
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Infobox workplaces: Stanford University ; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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Infobox workplaces: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory École Normale Supérieure
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