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Group K at SLAC
Group K is located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, a part of Stanford University. The major research interests of Group K are in
particle astrophysics. This exciting new discipline merges the worlds of particle physics
and astrophysics to try to address some of the most fundamental questions about our
universe. Particle astrophysicists use high-energy observations of super-massive black
holes and other types of cosmic objects in order to:
Test the standard model of particle physics under extreme
conditions of temperature, density and magnetic field that cannot be reproduced in
laboratories
Discover possible new types of elementary particles using
powerful astrophysical sources
Test the nature of relativistic gravity in environments which
have extreme gravitational fields
Probe the universe on very short and very long timescales using
space-based experiments which detect X- and gamma-radiation
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