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News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

What’s Next for Higgs Boson Research?

Two years after the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists are still hard at work.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Physicist Shares Do-it-Yourself Expertise Online

SLAC scientist Michael Kelsey sees connections between the communities of physicists and do-it-yourselfers.

Michael Kelsey

Grad Students and Postdocs Get a Crash Course in Using X-ray Lasers

Archana Raja, a graduate student at Columbia University, explains her group’s poster presentation at SLAC’s Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar.

Two dark matter hunters with decades of experience between them are turning SLAC into their base of operations for LZ, the next big dark matter search.

Photo - Dark matter hunters Thomas Shutt (l) and Daniel Akerib.

Stanford researcher Thomas F. Jaramillo has been named SUNCAT’s new deputy director for experiments. He succeeds SLAC’s Anders Nilsson.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Getting the Jump on Big Data for LSST

Efforts are already underway to ensure that the data the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope  collects will be ready to be mined for scientific gold.

Exploding Soccer Ball-shaped Molecules Will Help Biological Studies

Image - Buckyballs, molecules composed of 60 carbon atoms, bust apart as they are struck by intense X-ray pulses at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source. (Greg Stewart/SLAC)
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Massive Neutrino Detector Moved into Place

The 30-ton MicroBooNE detector, the cornerstone of Fermilab’s short-baseline neutrino program, will see neutrinos this year.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Computing Power for All

The Open Science Grid enables faster, more efficient analysis of LHC data—and also contributes to advancements in fields from geology to medicine.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

Higgs Boson Shows Scientists New Tricks

A new result from the Large Hadron Collider strengthens the case that the Higgs interacts with both types of particles in the Standard Model.

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