Dark Matter
SLAC Steps Up to the Plate at Bay Area Science Festival
SLAC will participate in Discovery Days at AT&T Park – the concluding highlight of the fourth annual Bay Area Science Festival.
Symmetry: Science Hack Day
Astrophysicists inspire space-related projects at a 24-hour hack-a-thon in San Francisco.
Symmetry: Pursuit of Dark Matter Progresses at AMS
A possible sign of dark matter will eventually become clear, according to promising signs from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment.
SLAC Summer Institute Students Take a Close Look at Dark Matter
Physicists have good reason to believe 85 percent of the matter in the universe is currently undetectable. But not being able to see it didn’t keep students at the 42nd SLAC Summer Institute from learning about it.
Symmetry: Open Access to the Universe
A team of scientists generated a giant cosmic simulation—and now they're giving it away.
Construction of Large Synoptic Survey Telescope to Begin
SLAC is leading the construction of LSST's 3,200-megapixel camera. The telescope will start surveying the entire visible southern sky in 2022.
Symmetry: How to Weigh a Galaxy Cluster
Step on a scale and you’ll get a quick measure of your weight. Weighing galaxy clusters, groups of hundreds or thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, isn’t so easy. But scientists have many ways to do it.
Symmetry: US Reveals Its Next Generation of Dark Matter Experiments
Together, three experiments, two with major SLAC contributions, will search for a variety of types of dark matter particles.
Noted Dark Matter Experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt Join SLAC Faculty
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.
Symmetry: Proposed Plan for the Future of US Particle Physics
The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel’s report, released today, recommends a strategic path forward for US particle physics.