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Working at the forefront of particle physics, SLAC scientists use powerful particle accelerators to create and study nature’s fundamental building blocks and forces, build sensitive detectors to search for new particles and develop theories that explain and guide experiments. SLAC's particle physicists want to understand our universe – from its smallest constituents to its largest structures.

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Particles collide in this illustration

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The fellowship will support their research into developing new methods of imaging tiny particles and understanding the properties of the Higgs boson.

Tais Gorkhover and Michael Kagan, the 2016 Panofsky Fellows at SLAC
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Participants of SLAC’s summer school learned about the next generation of collider physics through lectures, topical conference talks, student projects, poster sessions and tours.

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The scientists develop methods to study neutrinos from star explosions and search for unknown particles and forces with possible ties to dark matter.

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The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table.

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The first website to be hosted in the US has grown to be an invaluable hub for open science.

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In its final run, the LUX experiment increased its sensitivity four-fold, but dark matter remains elusive.

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What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?

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The Neutrino Turns 60

Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle.

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What Is a “Particle”?

Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?

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A small-scale version of the future detector allows researchers and engineers to test, develop and troubleshoot various aspects of its technology.

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1,000 Meters Below

Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

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Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are once again recording collisions at extraordinary energies.