e+e− at SLAC: present and future

The SLAC Linear Collider (SLC) with its 80% electron beam polarization combined with the SLD detector is the heart of the present SLAC e+e− physics program. The SLC/SLD program will continue through 1998, producing up to 500 000 additional polarized Z0 events. The next step for SLAC is studies of CP-violation in B-mesons using the PEP-II asymmetric B-Factory collider and the BaBar detector. PEP-II is presently under construction at SLAC in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The BaBar detector is being designed by an international collaboration of physicists. It features a superconducting solenoid, a CsI calorimeter, a novel Cherenkov ring-imaging detector, a drift chamber, and a 5-layer silicon vertex detector. First physics results are expected in 1999. SLAC is also a leading contributor to the international R&D program working toward the Next Linear Collider (NLC).