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Four SLAC Scientists Awarded Prestigious DOE Early Career Research Grants
Tais Gorkhover, Michael Kagan, Kazuhiro Terao and Joshua Turner will each receive $2.5 million for research that studies fundamental particles, nanoscale objects, quantum materials and machine learning.
Symmetry: Waiting for a Sign
Some scientists spend decades trying to catch a glimpse of a rare process. But with good experimental design and a lot of luck, they often need only a handful of signals to make a discovery.
Work Begins on New SLAC Facility for Revolutionary Accelerator Science
The goal: develop plasma technologies that could shrink future accelerators up to 1,000 times, potentially paving the way for next-generation particle colliders and powerful light sources.
Symmetry: Game-Changing Neutrino Experiments
This neutrino-watchers season preview will give you the rundown on what to expect to come out of neutrino research in the coming years.
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.
Hirohisa Tanaka Joins SLAC to Push Limits of Neutrino Physics
The accomplished particle physicist will prepare the lab for its role in DUNE, a next-generation experiment designed to demystify neutrinos and their fundamental role in the universe.
Symmetry: Starting from the Bottom
The bottom quark may lead physicists on a path to new discoveries.
Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Richard Taylor Dies at 88
One of the pioneering particle physicists working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Taylor carried out experiments that led to the 1990 Nobel Prize in physics for his role in the discovery of quarks.
Symmetry: Subatomic Smackdown
When it comes to talent, versatility and the power to change the world, which atomic particle is the champ?
SLAC Celebrates Legacy of Theoretical Physicist Sidney Drell
Nearly 200 guests attended a symposium on fundamental physics to celebrate the former deputy director’s numerous scientific contributions, which continue to have a tremendous impact on our understanding of the subatomic world.
