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October 9, 2017
News Feature
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.
LZ PMT Array
October 5, 2017
News Feature
Symmetry: A Radio for Dark Matter
Instead of searching for dark matter particles, a new device will search for dark matter waves.
Dark Matter Radio Team
September 5, 2017
News Feature
Symmetry: What Can Particles Tell Us About the Cosmos?
The minuscule and the immense can reveal quite a bit about each other.
August 30, 2017
Press Release
Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster
Menlo Park, Calif.
Neural Nets and Gravitational Lenses
August 25, 2017
News Feature
SLAC’s Blair Ratcliff Wins American Physical Society’s Instrumentation Award
The emeritus physicist was honored for the development of novel detectors that have greatly advanced experiments in particle physics, especially BABAR, which looked into the matter-antimatter imbalance of the universe.
Blair Ratcliff 2017 DPF Instrumentation Award
August 22, 2017
News Feature
Symmetry: Expanding the Search for Dark Matter
At a recent meeting, scientists shared ideas for searching for dark matter on the (relative) cheap.
August 14, 2017
News Feature
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 exa
LZ Dark Matter Detector
August 8, 2017
News Feature
Symmetry: A New Search for Dark Matter 6,800 Feet Underground
Prototype tests of the future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment are in full swing.
SuperCDMS
August 3, 2017
Press Release
Standard Model of the Universe Withstands Most Precise Test by Dark Energy Survey
SLAC and Stanford astrophysicists made crucial contributions to the galaxy survey, showing that the universe clumps and expands as predicted by our best cosmological models.
Blanco Telescope
July 24, 2017
News Feature
Construction of Massive Neutrino Experiment Kicks Off a Mile Underground
A unique groundbreaking ceremony marked the start of construction of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility – future home of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, which promises to shed new light on how the universe works and why matter exists.
DUNE Groundbreaking

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