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July 14, 2022
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Chelsea Bartram and Brian Lenardo named 2022 Panofsky Fellows at SLAC
They’ll work on experiments that search for dark matter particles and exotic neutrino decays that could help explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe.
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July 7, 2022
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Researchers mark successful startup of LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility
SLAC researchers contributed to the design, construction, testing and analysis of the experiment, which has already put the tightest bounds yet on a popular theory of dark matter.
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June 22, 2022
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SLAC physicists Natalia Toro and Philip Schuster win DOE's prestigious E.O. Lawrence Awards
Toro and Schuster are being recognized for their contributions to the design of experiments that use particle accelerators to search for dark matter particles.
June 9, 2022
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SLAC’s Auralee Edelen and Noah Kurinsky receive prestigious DOE Early Career Awards
Edelen draws on machine learning to fine tune particle accelerators, while Kurinsky develops dark matter detectors informed by quantum information science.
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March 10, 2022
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The Rubin Observatory's giant data acquisition system
The Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera will take enormously detailed images of the night sky from atop a mountain in Chile. Down below the mountain, high-speed computers will send the data out into the world. What happens in between?
January 19, 2022
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Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument creates largest 3D map of the cosmos
DESI has already mapped out more galaxies than all previous 3D surveys combined, and it's just getting started.
Mayall Telescope Star Trails
November 3, 2021
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How to host an astronomically large data set
Managing the unprecedented amount of data that will soon stream from Rubin Observatory means more than buying tons of hard drives. SLAC scientist Richard Dubois explains what will go into Rubin’s U.S. data facility.
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July 9, 2021
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SLAC hosts Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm for a virtual visit
She toured the lab’s powerful X-ray laser, looked at the construction of the world’s largest digital camera, and discussed climate research, industries of the future, and diversity, equity and inclusion in the sciences.
Secretary Granholm virtual visit
June 3, 2021
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SLAC’s Panofsky fellows talk about what makes their research so exciting
From the invisible world of elementary particles to the mysteries of the cosmos, recipients of this prestigious award for early career scientists explore nature at every level.
Panofsky fellows
May 27, 2021
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Dark Energy Survey releases most precise look at the universe’s evolution
An analysis of the first three years of Dark Energy Survey data is consistent with predictions from the current best model of the universe. Nevertheless, hints remain from DES and other experiments that matter in the current universe is a few percent less clumpy than predicted.
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