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Searching for dark matter and new astrophysics, UCSC Professor Stefano Profumo and PhD Student Eric Carlson investigate the origins of an excess emission near the Galactic center as observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

Left to right: GLAST, protein, ADELE

Launch. This is a test payload for the BARREL balloon campaign, designed to study particles from Earth's radiation belts.

A close-up photo of the Fermi launch.

Evolution of the gas (left) and stellar (right panel) density of the resimulated cluster 001, same center and region as for corresponding dark matter and gas movie above. (K. Riebe; PMViewer).

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April 17, 2017Undergrad wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
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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.

GLAST

Fermi

Physics students participate in UCSC Ballonfest

Perovskite nanostructures grown by Alice Durand at UC Santa Cruz

Protein structure imaged by X-ray scattering at a synchotron accelerator. (Credit: SLAC)

Aleph silicon microstrip vertex detector

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