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SLAC fundamental physics researchers study everything from elementary particles produced in accelerators to the large-scale structure of the universe. 

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Masanori Yamauchi started his three-year term as head of Japan’s major center of particle physics research this spring.

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Steady to a Fault

How do accelerators survive in some of the most earthquake-prone regions on Earth?

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Data collection has officially begun at the Large Hadron Collider.

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A Goldmine of Scientific Research

The underground home of the LUX dark matter experiment has a rich scientific history.

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LHC Achieves Record-Energy Collisions

The Large Hadron Collider broke its own record again in 13-trillion-electronvolt test collisions.

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Researchers at SLAC are setting up a test stand and liquid xenon purification system for the future LZ experiment, which is scheduled to begin...

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Natural SUSY’s Last Stand

Either Supersymmetry will be found in the next years of research at the Large Hadron Collider, or it isn’t exactly what theorists hoped it...

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The European Physical Society honors Bjorken’s theoretical work on the parton structure of the proton, which contributed to the development of a theory of...

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LSST Construction Begins

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will take the most thorough survey ever of the Southern sky.

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Dark Energy Survey scientists have released a detailed map of dark matter – crucial information for a better understanding of galaxy formation and dark...

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Seeing Dark Matter Without Seeing

Indirect detection experiments might be the key to discovering invisible dark matter.

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Using a newly identified set of supernovae, researchers have found a way to measure distances in space twice as precisely as before.