Stanford Linear Collider

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The Stanford Linear Collider was a linear accelerator that collided electrons and positrons at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The center of mass energy was about 90 GeV, equal to the mass of the Z boson, which the accelerator was designed to study. The first Z event was recorded on April 12, 1989 by the Mark II detector [1]. The bulk of the data was collected by the Stanford Large Detector, which came online in 1991. Although largely overshadowed by the LEP collider at CERN, which began running in 1989, the highly polarized electron beam at SLC (close to 80%) made certain unique measurements possible.

Presently no beam enters the south and north arcs in the machine, which leads to the Final Focus, therefore this section is mothballed to run beam into the PEP2 section from the beam switchyard.

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• Info on the SLC (rather out-of-date, despite the date given at the bottom)