SCIPP researchers specialize in the development of highly sensitive detectors and electronics used to track subatomic particles. Their detectors are used in high-energy physics experiments conducted in massive particle accelerator facilities and also in astrophysics experiments. In the photo at left, SCIPP researcher Robert Johnson holds a silicon strip detector and a detector panel designed for use in the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), a space-based telescope NASA plans to launch within the next decade. The detectors will record gamma rays emitted by neutron stars, black holes, pulsars, supernova remnants, and other intriguing astrophysical sources. (Photo: R. R. Jones)  Back to UC Santa Cruz page