Fundamental physics

Salleo sees strength in the big picture and minute details of the people, tools and partnerships at SLAC.

Cosmologists Josh Frieman and Risa Wechsler look back on the Dark Energy Survey, sharing how it’s paving the way for Rubin Observatory to dig deeper into some of the universe’s darkest mysteries.

The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time.

Researchers find evidence of coexisting atomic stacking patterns in superionic water. 

First peer-reviewed paper using data from SLAC-built LSST Camera identifies an asteroid, nearly the size of eight football fields, rotating every two minutes.

In the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN's latest results provide the strongest constraints on low-mass WIMPs and detect boron-8 solar neutrinos.

SLAC and Stanford partner with Argonne National Laboratory and others toward a quantum-interconnected world.

Her work will advance a next-generation experiment in the hope of detecting this mysterious ingredient of the universe.

With survey operations set to begin this fall, the Rubin control room at SLAC will serve as a key hub for training and remote observing support for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

Quantum sensing uses quantum phenomena to detect extremely subtle signals or changes that are beyond the reach of many traditional sensors.

Researchers used LCLS to capture the ultrafast motion of electrons inside molecules – at scales never before possible. 

The team unexpectedly formed gold hydride in an experiment that could pave the way for studying materials under extreme conditions like those found inside certain planets and stars undergoing nuclear fusion.