The Stanford Linear Detector (SLD) Experiment at SLAC’s Linear Collider (SLC) produced over half a million Z particles in 7 years of operation from 1992-1998. The SLC was the world’s first and only linear collider, and was a successful prototype for the next generation of electron colliders. The SLC accelerated and collided beams of electrons and positrons (anti-electrons). The energies of the 2 colliding beams were tuned to add up to the rest mass of the Z, which is 97 times heavier than the proton, to yield a high Z production rate.
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