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Working at the forefront of particle physics, SLAC scientists use powerful particle accelerators to create and study nature’s fundamental building blocks and forces, build sensitive detectors to search for new particles and develop theories that explain and guide experiments. SLAC's particle physicists want to understand our universe – from its smallest constituents to its largest structures.

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Elementary particle physics

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News Feature

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will add an unprecedented amount of cosmological data to the study of the structure and expansion of the Universe.

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A look inside the data processing infrastructure built by the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory to handle the Universe’s greatest data challenge.

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Now that NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera has been installed, what’s next?

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News Feature

The long and continuing quest to understand dark energy has entered exciting new territory.

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Press Release

Using the largest digital camera in the world, Rubin Observatory will soon be ready to capture more data than any other observatory in history.

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News Feature

Researchers positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful than before.

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News Brief

Rubin Observatory’s rapid scanning of the night sky will capture the largest sample of Type Ia supernovae yet, unlocking new insights into dark energy.

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News Feature

The microelectronics that power daily life and speed discoveries in science and technology are the focus of a bold new vision to make them...

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Past Event
Register to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page.  In particle physics, we search for...
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A new center brings astrophysics, data science, and AI together to answer some of the universe’s biggest questions.

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News Feature

In 1974, the independent discovery of the J/psi particle at SLAC and Brookhaven National Laboratory rocked the physics world, and entire textbooks had to...

50th anniversary of the J/psi discovery
News Feature
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From sea to scientific sea

Take a tour of the 17 national laboratories across the United States.

Take a tour of the 17 national laboratories across the United States