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Symmetry: The Deconstructed Standard Model Equation
The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table.
Symmetry: The Most Important Website in Particle Physics
The first website to be hosted in the US has grown to be an invaluable hub for open science.
Symmetry: Dark Matter Evades Most Sensitive Detector
In its final run, the LUX experiment increased its sensitivity four-fold, but dark matter remains elusive.
A Primer on Particle Accelerators
What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?
Symmetry: The Neutrino Turns 60
Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle. Sixty years later, scientists are confronted with more neutrino mysteries than ever before.
Symmetry: What Is a “Particle”?
Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?
Prototype of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector Tested at SLAC
A small-scale version of the future detector allows researchers and engineers to test, develop and troubleshoot various aspects of its technology.
Symmetry: 1,000 Meters Below
Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.
Symmetry: LHC Prepares to Deliver Six Times the Data
Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are once again recording collisions at extraordinary energies.
SLAC’s Historic Linac Turns 50 and Gets a Makeover
The lab’s signature particle highway prepares to enter another era of transformative science as the home of the LCLS-II X-ray laser.
