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News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

OPERA Catches Fifth Tau Neutrino

The OPERA experiment’s study of tau neutrino appearance has reached the level of “discovery.”

The fellowship will support their research on new capabilities for the lab's X-ray free-electron lasers and new telescope technology to look for signs of cosmic inflation.

Zeeshan Ahmed and Agostino Marinelli, SLAC's 2015 Panofsky Fellows
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Symmetry Q&A: New director-general of KEK

Masanori Yamauchi started his three-year term as head of Japan’s major center of particle physics research this spring.

X-ray studies at SLAC have observed an exotic property that could improve performance in ever-smaller computer components.

3-D negative electronic compressibility, observed for the first time in research conducted, in part,

SLAC visiting scientist and consulting professor Claudio Pellegrini is honored for contributions to free-electron laser science.

Image - Claudio Pellegrini stands in the Linac Coherent Light Source Beam Transport Hall. The accelerated electron beam passes through here to the Undulator Hall, where electron bunches generate X-rays. (Michelle McCarron)
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Steady to a Fault

How do accelerators survive in some of the most earthquake-prone regions on Earth?

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

LHC Arrives at the Next Energy Frontier

Data collection has officially begun at the Large Hadron Collider.

SLAC and the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis supported creation of a new carbon material that significantly improves the performance of batteries and supercapacitors.

Results from SIMES theorists pave the way for experiments that create and control new forms of matter with light.

Depiction of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern to form graphene
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A Goldmine of Scientific Research

The underground home of the LUX dark matter experiment has a rich scientific history.

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