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Construction Begins on One of the World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Experiments
The SuperCDMS SNOLAB project, a multi-institutional effort led by SLAC, is expanding the hunt for dark matter to particles with properties not accessible to any other experiment.
The World’s Largest Astronomical Movie
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will track billions of objects for 10 years, creating unprecedented opportunities for studies of cosmic mysteries.
45-Year-Old Telescope Gets a Makeover to Demystify Dark Energy
Installation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument begins at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
SLAC’s Risa Wechsler Named American Physical Society Fellow
The astrophysicist is recognized for her leadership, mentorship and innovative work in understanding how galaxies form.
Stanford, SLAC Experts on LIGO’s Binary Neutron Star Milestone
The Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors have announced their first observation of a binary neutron star coalescence.
Photos: Prototype of LZ Dark Matter Experiment Gets More Sensitive ‘Eye’
System tests at SLAC continue with 32 light sensors - up from a single one - in a small-scale version of the future experiment, which will use nearly 500 of them.
Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster
Menlo Park, Calif. — Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks – a form of artificial intelligence – can accurately analyze the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods.
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?
Three SLAC Scientists Receive DOE Early Career Research Grants
Zeeshan Ahmed, Frederico Fiuza and Emilio Nanni will each receive about $2.5 million over five years to pursue cutting-edge research into cosmic inflation, plasma acceleration and using terahertz waves to accelerate particles.
Symmetry: A New Search for Dark Matter 6,800 Feet Underground
Prototype tests of the future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment are in full swing.
