SLAC topics

Particle physics RSS feed

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.

Related links:
Physics of the universe
Elementary particle physics

Particles collide in this illustration

Upcoming 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...
Public lecture illustration
Dec 05
News Feature

A new center brings astrophysics, data science, and AI together to answer some of the universe’s biggest questions.

A rendering of a galaxy.
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
VIA Symmetry Magazine

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
News Feature

SLAC hosted two faculty members from institutions historically underrepresented in the research community via the Visiting Faculty Program.

Fred Lacy and Kolo Wamba stand in front experimental equipment.
News Feature

Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he participated in himself.

Michael Riordan
News Feature

Physicists in the United States support the development of an off-shore Higgs Factory.

Conceptual illustration of a factory production line with robot arms with a particle collision in the center
News Feature

The prototype DUNE 2x2 detector will capture up to 10,000 neutrino interactions per day.

Two people in blue helmets examine experimental equipment.
News Feature

David Cesar, Julia Gonski and W.L. Kimmy Wu will each receive $2.75 million issued over five years for their research in X-ray and ultrafast...

Early Career Award Winners 2024
News Feature

New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes...

A tall white cylinder stands in a clean room space.
News Feature

The 3.5-meter  glass mirror is the first permanent component of the Simonyi Survey Telescope's  state-of-the-art, wide-field optical system to be installed and will soon...

A donut-shaped mirror is lowered into a large support apparatus.
Video

Margaux Lopez is the logistics lead for shipping the LSST Camera to Chile. The world's largest digital camera, crafted at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory...

Stillframe of LSST video
Video