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SLAC fundamental physics researchers study everything from elementary particles produced in accelerators to the large-scale structure of the universe. 

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The summer school explored upcoming opportunities to expand our understanding of the universe and its fundamental physics, from mysterious dark matter to recently detected...

2017 SSI Group Photo
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The minuscule and the immense can reveal quite a bit about each other.

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SLAC and Stanford researchers demonstrate that brain-mimicking ‘neural networks’ can revolutionize the way astrophysicists analyze their most complex data, including extreme distortions in spacetime...

Neural Nets and Gravitational Lenses
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The emeritus physicist was honored for the development of novel detectors that have greatly advanced experiments in particle physics, especially BABAR, which looked into...

Blair Ratcliff 2017 DPF Instrumentation Award
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Expanding the Search for Dark Matter

At a recent meeting, scientists shared ideas for searching for dark matter on the (relative) cheap.

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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are on a quest to solve one of physics’ biggest mysteries: What exa

LZ Dark Matter Detector
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Zeeshan Ahmed, Frederico Fiuza and Emilio Nanni will each receive about $2.5 million over five years to pursue cutting-edge research into cosmic inflation, plasma...

SLAC's 2017 DOE Early Career Award winners
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Prototype tests of the future SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment are in full swing.

SuperCDMS
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SLAC and Stanford astrophysicists made crucial contributions to the galaxy survey, showing that the universe clumps and expands as predicted by our best cosmological...

Blanco Telescope
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A map of the sky showing the density of galaxy clusters, galaxies and matter in the universe over the part...
Map of sky showing density of galaxy clusters
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Image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which is mounted on the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro...
DECam Images
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A unique groundbreaking ceremony marked the start of construction of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility – future home of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, which...

DUNE Groundbreaking