Elementary Particle Physics (EPP)
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Students Discuss ‘Cosmic Opportunities’ at 45th Annual SLAC Summer Institute
Symmetry: What Can Particles Tell Us About the Cosmos?
The minuscule and the immense can reveal quite a bit about each other.
SLAC’s Blair Ratcliff Wins American Physical Society’s Instrumentation Award
Symmetry: Expanding the Search for Dark Matter
At a recent meeting, scientists shared ideas for searching for dark matter on the (relative) cheap.
Video: Dark Matter Hunt with LUX-ZEPLIN
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are on a quest to solve one of physics’ biggest mysteries: What exactly is dark matter – the invisible substance that accounts for 85 percent of all the matter in the universe but can’t be seen even with our most advanced scientific instruments?
Construction of Massive Neutrino Experiment Kicks Off a Mile Underground
Symmetry: SLAC Accelerator Plans Appear in Smithsonian Art Exhibit
The late artist June Schwarcz found inspiration in some unusual wrapping paper her husband brought home from the lab.
Symmetry: What’s Really Happening During an LHC Collision?
It’s less of a collision and more of a symphony.
Symmetry: African School Works to Develop Local Expertise
Universities in sub-Saharan Africa are teaming up to offer free training to students interested in fundamental physics.
Symmetry: A Speed Trap for Dark Matter, Revisited
A NASA rocket experiment could use the Doppler effect to look for signs of dark matter in mysterious X-ray emissions from space.
