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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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Universities in sub-Saharan Africa are teaming up to offer free training to students interested in fundamental physics.

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A NASA rocket experiment could use the Doppler effect to look for signs of dark matter in mysterious X-ray emissions from space.

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Another Year Wiser

In honor of Fermilab’s upcoming 50th birthday, Symmetry presents physics birthday cards.

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Data from the BABAR, Belle and LHCb experiments hint at phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.

Vera-Luth
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A Brief Etymology of Particle Physics

How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?

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The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”

Heavy Photon Search.
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LHC Swings Back into Action

Protons are colliding once again in the Large Hadron Collider.

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Sensitive gamma-ray “eye” on NASA’s Fermi space telescope continues to provide unprecedented views of violent phenomena in the cosmos.

Fermi in Space.
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A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.

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Did You See it?

Boston University physicist Tulika Bose explains why there's more than one large, general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.

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Wizardly Neutrinos

Why can a neutrino pass through solid objects?