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Tesla JeltemaDelving into the Dark: Astronomical Probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

The research program of Assistant Professor Tesla Jeltema, the latest addition to the UC Santa Cruz Physics faculty, focuses precisely on astronomical probes of both dark matter and dark energy. The ultimate aim of Jeltema’s scientific work is to constrain models, gather information and eventually discover the nature of what “matters the most” in the universe. Continue»

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This is a test payload for the BARREL balloon campaign, designed to study particles from Earth's radiation belts. The full BARREL campaign will launch a total of 40 balloons in 2012-2013.Grad student Bryna Hazelton (2009) and engineer Forest Martinez-McKinney checking parts for the ADELE gamma-ray detector about to be flown above thunderstorms in the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V jet shown in the back.Laying out the payload and flight train for launch outside McMurdo. Mt. Erebus in the background.GLASTBaBar detector at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. (Photo Courtesy of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)Physics students participate in UCSC BallonfestPerovskite nanostructures grown by Alice Durand at UC Santa CruzProtein structure imaged by X-ray scattering at a synchotron accelerator. (Credit: SLAC)Aleph silicon microstrip vertex detector

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