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SLAC researchers want to answer fundamental questions about neutrinos, including whether a new type of neutrino could be linked to dark matter and whether neutrinos explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe.

Physicists take on the mystery of the missing (and extra) neutrinos.
Feature

Mysterious Neutrinos Take the Stage at SLAC

SLAC is ramping up its efforts to understand neutrinos – elusive fundamental particles whose properties may help researchers solve a number of cosmic mysteries.

September 23, 2015  ·  7 min read
The EXO-200 underground detector.
News Release

Underground Search for Neutrino Properties Unveils First Results

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

June 4, 2012  ·  2 min read
EXO-200 in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Feature

How Slow is Slow? EXO Knows!

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

September 8, 2011  ·  4 min read
A very clean Knut Skarpaas, SLAC engineer, with half of the equally clean detector (Photo courtesy EXO collaboration.)