Researchers around the world pursue three approaches to look for fingerprints of dark matter's ghostly components: on the Earth’s surface, underground and in space. 

The centerpiece of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment will be four detector towers (left), each containing six detector packs. The towers will be mounted inside...

In 2019, researchers plan to replace the current dark matter experiment LUX with the more sensitive LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ). It will be located one mile...

Poster illustration of public lecture featuring Ashley James

Klystrons are microwave generators. The klystrons used at SLAC are cousins to the microwave generators that heat up food in your microwave oven.

Animation illustrating the concept of the Trojan horse method. An electron bunch from SLAC’s FACET facility (bright spot at right) passes through hydrogen plasma...

This illustration depicts a herringbone-like pattern in the atomic lattice of a quantum material created by researchers at SLAC and Stanford.

Facilities at SLAC with SPEAR3 at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) to the left and Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) hutch to the right.