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A new device at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory allows researchers to explore the properties and dynamics of molecules with circularly polarized, or spiraling, light.

Electrons spiral through the Delta undulator.
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Neutrino Turns 60

Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle.

The results are an important step in designing these solid-state devices for computer memories that would operate much faster, last longer and use less energy than today’s flash memory.

Manipulating electron beams of X-ray lasers with regular laser light could potentially open up new scientific avenues.

Beam of electrons illustration.

A SLAC/Stanford study opens a new path to producing laser pulses that are just billionths of a billionth of a second long by inducing ‘high harmonic generation’ in a solid.

Stanford graduate student Georges Ndabashimiye in the PULSE Institute laser lab
News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

What Is a “Particle”?

Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?

Researchers have reached another milestone in the development of a promising technology that could lead to more efficient and powerful particle accelerators.

A small-scale version of the future detector allows researchers and engineers to test, develop and troubleshoot various aspects of its technology.

News Feature · VIA Symmetry Magazine

1,000 Meters Below

Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

Finding ways to handle torrents of data from LSST and LCLS-II will also advance “exascale” computing.

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