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VIA SLAC Flickr

Imaging sensors installed in LSST ComCam

The LSST camera integration and testing team inserted a raft of nine imaging sensors into the body of the ComCam. This miniature version of...

March 5, 2019
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Light dark matter is a thousand times less likely to bump into regular matter than previous astrophysical analyses allowed

A SLAC/Stanford study of the population of satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way provides new clues about the particle nature of dark matter.

July 11, 2019  ·  6 min read
Dark matter simulation
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DESI points 5,000 robotic ‘eyes’ at the sky to explore dark energy

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument begins final testing, setting the stage for a 5-year survey that will analyze the light of 35 million galaxies.

October 28, 2019  ·  7 min read
DESI ‘eyes’
Past Event
Public lecture

10 Years of Cosmic Fireworks with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

Presented by Eric Charles. A single gamma ray carries millions of times the energy of a single photon of visible light.  This means that...

Date Tuesday, July 24, 2018
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
stillframe image from lecture titled 10 Years of Cosmic Fireworks with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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SLAC physicists Natalia Toro and Philip Schuster win DOE's prestigious E.O. Lawrence Awards

Toro and Schuster are being recognized for their contributions to the design of experiments that use particle accelerators to search for dark matter particles.

June 22, 2022  ·  6 min read
SLAC physicists Natalia Toro and Philip Schuster
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Researchers mark successful startup of LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility

SLAC researchers contributed to the design, construction, testing and analysis of the experiment, which has already put the tightest bounds yet on a popular...

July 7, 2022  ·  6 min read
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Chelsea Bartram and Brian Lenardo named 2022 Panofsky Fellows at SLAC

They’ll work on experiments that search for dark matter particles and exotic neutrino decays that could help explain why there’s more matter than antimatter...

July 14, 2022  ·  5 min read
Side-by-side portraits of Brian Lenardo and Chelsea Bartram
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How do you take a better image of atom clouds? Mirrors – lots of mirrors

To capture as much information as possible about clouds of atoms at the heart of the MAGIS-100 experiment, SLAC scientists devised a dome of...

August 19, 2022  ·  6 min read
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The power of awe and the cosmos

A cosmologist, cultural historian, and neurosurgeon discuss how outer space and otherworldly phenomena can inspire discovery across disciplines and bring people together.

September 7, 2022
Image of galaxies of different colors and varied, warped shapes.
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Researchers at SLAC use purified liquid xenon to search for mysterious dark matter particles

An enormous vat of pure liquid xenon will help scientists at SLAC and around the globe learn more about the universe.

September 15, 2022  ·  7 min read
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SLAC scientists created the most powerful ultrashort electron beam in the world

Researchers positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful than before.

March 3, 2025  ·  3 min read
Claudio Emma and Brendan O’Shea examine experimental apparatus.
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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory installs LSST Camera on telescope

Using the largest digital camera in the world, Rubin Observatory will soon be ready to capture more data than any other observatory in history.

March 12, 2025  ·  8 min read
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