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SLAC is ramping up its efforts to understand neutrinos – elusive fundamental particles whose properties may help researchers solve a number of cosmic mysteries.

The EXO-200 underground detector.
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Do Protons Decay?

Is it possible that these fundamental building blocks of atoms have a finite lifetime?

The DOE has approved the project’s scientific scope, schedule and funding. SLAC researchers are among the 200 physicists and astronomers who make up the international DESI Collaboration.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Hitting the Neutrino Floor

Dark matter experiments are becoming so sensitive, even the ghostliest of particles will soon get in the way.

The former SLAC and Stanford researcher will be recognized during a SLAC conference next month for her work in studying nanoscale magnetic and electronic processes.

Image - Roopali Kukreja, working in a laboratory at the University of California, San Diego. (Courtesy of Roopali Kukreja)

Using SLAC's X-ray laser, researchers have for the first time directly observed myoglobin move within quadrillionths of a second after a bond breaks and the protein releases a gas molecule.

Image - Ilme Schlichting (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Where the Higgs Belongs

The Higgs doesn’t quite fit in with the other particles of the Standard Model of particle physics.

A SLAC study observed silica's shockingly fast transformation into a highly compressed form found in meteor craters.

Image - Meteor Crater, formed by a meteorite impact 50,000 years ago in Arizona, produced a hard, compressed form of silica known as stishovite. Researchers measured the transformation of a fused silica glass into stishovite using SLAC's X-ray laser.

Understanding Motions of Thin Layers May Help Design Solar Cells, Electronics and Catalysts of the Future

a three-atom-thick layer of a promising material as it wrinkles in response to a laser pulse

Visit the immersive Nobel Labs 360 website about Kobilka, including an interactive tour of his work at SSRL. To find the SSRL section, click twice on the window in the upper right corner.

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