Yokoyama has been a central figure in the research community in Japan, leading international research efforts into cosmology of the early universe, large-scale structure evolution and gravitational-wave physics.
The Secretary and other US Department of Energy officials spent an afternoon touring SLAC’s energy labs, the superconducting-accelerator-powered Linac Coherent Light Source, and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera.
When studying mysterious subatomic particles, researchers use a different kind of particle detector to prevent run-of-the-mill dust particles from getting in the way.
