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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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A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.

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Did You See it?

Boston University physicist Tulika Bose explains why there's more than one large, general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.

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Wizardly Neutrinos

Why can a neutrino pass through solid objects?

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Physics Love Poems

Advance your romance with science.

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LZ Dark Matter Detector on Fast Track

Construction has officially launched for the LZ next-generation dark matter experiment.

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Physics Love Poem Challenge

Think you can do better than the Symmetry staff? Send us your poems!

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Supernova

Using Twinkles, the new simulation of images of our night sky, scientists get ready for a gigantic cosmological survey unlike any before.

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How Heavy is a Neutrino?

The question is more complicated than it seems.

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2016 year in particle physics

Scientists furthered studies of the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation and continued the search for undiscovere

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Science with Sprinkles

Holiday guests will gravitate toward these physics cookies.

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A Syllabus in Cosmic Rays

What have scientists learned in five years of studying cosmic rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment?