SLAC topics

Fundamental physics RSS feed

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

Browse tagged content

Fundamental physics concept illustration

News Feature
VIA Symmetry Magazine

Photowalk Winners Announced

An international jury and more than 3800 public votes determined the winners of this year's Global Physics Photowalk competition.

News Feature

Dark matter hunters of the LUX collaboration have ruled out a larger-than-ever range of properties that hypothetical dark matter particles might have had.

News Feature
VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Next Gamma-Ray Eye on the Sky

Scientists have successfully tested the first prototype camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array.

News Feature
VIA Symmetry Magazine

Save the Particles

To learn more about the particles they collide, physicists turn their attention to a less destructive type of collision in the LHC.

News Feature
VIA Symmetry Magazine

What Could Dark Matter Be?

Scientists don’t yet know what dark matter is made of, but they are full of ideas.

News Feature
VIA Symmetry Magazine

Charge-Parity Violation

Matter and antimatter behave differently. Scientists hope that investigating how might someday explain why we exist.

Photo of closed rose. In mirror it is open.
News Feature

Researchers are searching for a quantum theory of gravity that could help answer fundamental questions about the universe, from the very first moments after...

News Feature
VIA Symmetry Magazine

Cleanroom is a Verb

It’s not easy being clean.

News Feature

KIPAC's Leonardo Senatore was among three Stanford professors to receive awards during a star-studded award ceremony Sunday night. Karl Deisseroth (pictured) took a top...

News Feature
VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Light Side of Dark Matter

New technology and new thinking are pushing the dark matter hunt to lower and lower masses.

News Feature
VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Particle Physics of You

Not only are we made of fundamental particles, we also produce them and are constantly bombarded by them throughout the day.

News Feature

Researchers hope that the new experiment will shine light on how elementary neutrinos morph from one type into another.