Papers and other records of Goldhaber that document his research and academic career at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. Correspondence, instructional materials and lectures on particle physics, as well as scientific papers and reports pertaining to elementary-particle studies and Goldhaber's work with the Mark II magnetic detector at SPEAR (Stanford Positron Electron Accelerator Ring).

Goldhaber's administrative correspondence includes original letters, sent and received by Goldhaber, form letters, and LBL Physics Division and SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) administrative memoranda. Also includes a substantial number of letters of recommendations for students and postdoctoral fellows and conference letters of invitation, and correspondence regarding fellowships, staff appointments and recommendations, and conference announcements. Approximately one-fourth of the correspondence pertains to Goldhaber's elementary-particle studies, including kaon investigations and the discoveries of J/psi and other charmed quarks since November 1974.

The LBL-SLAC Program Advisory Committee proposals and experiment notes consist of Goldhaber's research-and-development records, and document his investigation of high-energy elementary particles, including studies with bubble-chamber detectors, of meson and antiproton interactions, and the discovery and identification of charmonium. This series also documents his interest in proton-proton annihilation experiments at CERN; electron-positron annihilation at the SPEAR, the colliding beam at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and discovery of psi (3105, 3684, 3685) or charmed quark. Reports, notes, graph, and diagrams (histograms) show research at the LBL Bevatron and, later, the SLAC studies of e+e annhilation at high energies; includes studies of the tau lepton decays. Goldhaber's records include his studies of D+ meson (containing charm and the down antiquark). The late 1980s and 1990 data and reports refer to Goldhaber's activities in the research and development of the Mark II detector project at Positron-Electron Project (PEP), and detection of neutral Z and W+ bosons (mediating unified electroweak forces).

The SPEAR experimental reports and data series includes notes and reports of the psi decay studies with the MARK II detector at the Stanford Positron Electron Accelerator Ring (SPEAR), and documents the comparison of baryon-antibaryon decay modes and resonances of psi (3097) particle and its particle flavor SU(3). The series also includes discussion paper of charmed meson study in 1976, as well as report drafts, notes, graphs, charts, figures, and photographic prints and mockups in preparation for final publication; printouts; transparencies and photographic negatives.