SLAC topics
Particle physics
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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Physics of the universe
Elementary particle physics
In this illustration of a particle physics experiment, particles collide and transform into multiple other particles.
(Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
