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200-terawatt Laser Brings New Extremes in Heat, Pressure to X-ray Experiments
A 200-terawatt laser at SLAC will synchronize with X-ray laser pulses to precisely measure more extreme temperatures and pressures in exotic forms of matter.
Mysterious Neutrinos Take the Stage at SLAC
SLAC is ramping up its efforts to understand neutrinos – elusive fundamental particles whose properties may help researchers solve a number of cosmic mysteries.
DESI, an Ambitious Probe of Dark Energy, Achieves its Next Major Milestone
The DOE has approved the project’s scientific scope, schedule and funding. SLAC researchers are among the 200 physicists and astronomers who make up the international DESI Collaboration.
World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light
The Department of Energy has approved the start of construction for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera – the world’s largest – at the heart of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).
Symmetry: The Age of the Universe
How can we figure out when the universe began?
Dark Energy Survey Finds More Celestial Neighbors
Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy.
Symmetry: IceCube Sees Highest-Energy Neutrino Ever Found
Observations of this kind could lead scientists to the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Symmetry: Is this the only universe?
Our universe could be just one small piece of a bubbling multiverse.
Symmetry: What is Dark Energy
Dark energy is everywhere. It will determine the fate of our universe. And we still have no idea what it is.
Scientists Drive Tiny Shock Waves Through Diamond
Researchers have used an X-ray laser to record, in detail never possible before, the microscopic motion and effects of shock waves rippling across diamond.
