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The EXO particle physics experiment searched for an extremely rare – and still hypothetical – process that may help physicists understand some of the mysteries of the universe.

The EXO-200 underground detector.

News Feature

Scientists in SLAC's Integrated Circuits Department reach a new frontier in ultrafast X-ray science with intricately designed signal-processing chips that translate particles of light...

Four ePix100 prototype chips bonded in a test setup. (Brad Plummer/SLAC)
Press Release

Scientists studying neutrinos have found with the highest degree of sensitivity yet that these mysterious particles behave like other elementary particles at the quantum...

EXO-200 in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
News Feature

Cooks think of watched pots. Handymen grumble about drying paint.

A very clean Knut Skarpaas, SLAC engineer, with half of the equally clean detector (Photo courtesy EXO collaboration.)