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Feature

Winning photos from the 2018 SLAC physics photowalk

The SLAC Photowalk took a group of photographers, both amateur and professional, behind the scenes to photograph SLAC's world-class science facilities, including the world's...

August 27, 2018
Photowalk: CXI chamber
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Students affected by Hurricane Maria bring their research to SLAC

This summer, five graduate students from the University of Puerto Rico had the opportunity to use SLAC’s world-class facilities to keep their studies on...

August 21, 2018  ·  5 min read
University of Puerto Rico Interns
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How SLAC’s ‘electronics artists’ enable cutting-edge science

A team of electrical designers develops specialized microchips for a broad range of scientific applications, including X-ray science and particle physics.

August 23, 2018  ·  7 min read
This illustration shows the layout of an application-specific integrated circuit, or ASIC, at an imaginary art exhibition.
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Q&A: Shining X-ray light on perovskites for better solar cells

Four scientists discuss X-ray experiments at SLAC’s synchrotron that reveal new insights into how a promising solar cell material forms.

August 27, 2018  ·  6 min read
Photo: Aryeh Gold-Parker, Chris Tassone, Kevin Stone and Mike Toney
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

LHC scientists detect most favored Higgs decay

Today the ATLAS collaboration, which includes SLAC physicists, announced with the CMS collaboration the joint discovery of the Higgs boson transforming into bottom quarks...

August 28, 2018
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Chuntian Cao wins 2018 Klein Award for lithium-ion battery research

Using SLAC’s X-ray synchrotron SSRL, Cao improves fundamental knowledge about how a new lithium-ion battery material works, which will help enable safer, longer-lasting devices.

August 30, 2018  ·  3 min read
Chuntian Cao
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Graham George receives Lytle Award for contributions to X-ray absorption spectroscopy

In more than 185 experimental runs at SLAC’s synchrotron, he has pushed the envelope of both techniques and science.

September 11, 2018  ·  4 min read
Photo: Graham George
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Tais Gorkhover wins LCLS Young Investigator Award for pioneering novel X-ray imaging methods

The early-career award honors a promising leader in X-ray free-electron laser research.

September 13, 2018  ·  4 min read
SLAC's Tais Gorkhover
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X-rays uncover a hidden property that leads to failure in a lithium-ion battery material

Experiments at SLAC and Berkeley Lab uproot long-held assumptions and will inform future battery design.

September 17, 2018  ·  6 min read
Lithium ion infographic
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

First particle tracks seen at ProtoDUNE

SLAC researchers play an important role in the data acquisition of the largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world, a prototype for the future...

September 18, 2018
ProtoDUNE Tracks
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Dark matter vibes

New technology could help future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment expand the search for light dark matter particles

September 20, 2018
SuperCDMS Prototype Crystal
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DOE announces $218 million for Quantum Information Science

SLAC receives three awards for the development of quantum technology for dark matter searches and quantum computing

September 24, 2018
Quantum Information Science
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