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SLAC fundamental physics researchers study everything from elementary particles produced in accelerators to the large-scale structure of the universe. 

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MEC silicon

Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.

October 13, 2022
MEC silicon
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Researchers resolve decades-long debate about shock-compressed silicon with unprecedented detail

They saw how the material finds a path to contorting and flexing to avoid being irreversibly crushed.

October 13, 2022  ·  5 min read
MEC silicon
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SuperCDMS tower

From left, SCU Physics Prof. Betty Young, Software Developer Concetta "Tina" Cartaro and Senior Staff Scientist Richard Partridge put the fourth, and final, SuperCDMS...

October 13, 2022
The fourth, and final, SuperCDMS tower is put back into its storage container
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Vizlab at Kavli

Kavli Institute for Partical Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) scientist Ralf Kaehler, at work here in the "Vizlab," and colleagues use computer visualizations to simulate...

October 4, 2022
Kavli Institute for Partical Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) scientist Ralf Kaehler at work here in the "Vizlab."
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LSST Camera explainer

Learn about the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the SLAC-built LSST Camera and NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in this video.

October 4, 2022  ·  00:05:58  runtime
LSST Explainer | Mapping the universe
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SLAC's LSST Camera inside clean room

The LSST Camera is being tested inside the clean room at SLAC

September 22, 2022  ·  00:00:30  runtime
Front Page - LSST Camera
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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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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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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
Bubble-like glass lenses inside a white cylindrical apparatus.
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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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SLAC’s Auralee Edelen and Noah Kurinsky receive prestigious DOE Early Career Awards

Edelen draws on machine learning to fine tune particle accelerators, while Kurinsky develops dark matter detectors informed by quantum information science.

June 9, 2022  ·  5 min read
Side by side photographs of a woman and a man.
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LSST camera data acquisition system

The data acquisition system for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera starts right at the back of the...
March 10, 2022
LSST data acquisition system