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One of the original dark matter detection experiments, CDMS searched for dark matter particles smaller than ten times the mass of the proton.

SNOLAB Engineering Tower installed in Dilution fridge.

The collaboration is searching for dark matter particles with masses smaller than ten times the mass of the proton.

SuperCDMS Detector 2
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The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and...

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Putting the fourth, and final, SuperCDMS tower safely back into its storage container. 

SCU physics Professor, Software Developer, and Senior Staff Scientist put the SuperCDMS tower safely back into its storage container.
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The SuperCDMS SNOLAB project, a multi-institutional effort led by SLAC, is expanding the hunt for dark matter to particles with properties not accessible to...

SuperCDMS Detector 2
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Zeeshan Ahmed, Frederico Fiuza and Emilio Nanni will each receive about $2.5 million over five years to pursue cutting-edge research into cosmic inflation, plasma...

SLAC's 2017 DOE Early Career Award winners
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Prototype tests of the future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment are in full swing.

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

1,000 Meters Below

Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

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Dark matter hunters around the world pursue three approaches to look for fingerprints of ghostly WIMPs: on the Earth’s surface, underground and in space.

Researchers around the world pursue three approaches to look for fingerprints of dark matter's ghostly components.
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Light Side of Dark Matter

New technology and new thinking are pushing the dark matter hunt to lower and lower masses.

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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.

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When SuperCDMS SNOLAB turns on in 2018 at the underground science laboratory in Canada, it will be able to see dark matter particles 10...

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Together, three experiments, two with major SLAC contributions, will search for a variety of types of dark matter particles.

This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56, also known as the "bullet cluster."