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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS: Accident Shuts Down SLAC, Spurs Probe of Safety Rules
Adrian Cho
Officials at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have shut down the laboratory's particle accelerators indefinitely after an accident that left one worker seriously injured.