Experiments

CERN

the world’s largest particle physics laboratory
Experiments being planned for operation in 2007 at CERN’s new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider

  • ATLAS - A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS
  • CMS - Compact Muon Solenoid experiment
  • LHC-B - where did all the antimatter go?
  • ALICE - a heavy ion experiment, re-creating the universe just after the Big Bang

DESY logo DESY

Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg
Running experiments at the HERA storage ring

SLAC logo SLAC

Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre, USA

  • BaBar - An experiment exploring the question of missing antimatter

RAL

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK

ILL

Institute Laue Langevin, France

Fermilab logo FNAL

Fermi National Laboratory, USA

Non-Accelerator Experiments

  • Super Kamiokande - a neutrino experiment in Japan
  • SNO - The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Canada

Proposed Future Accelerators

  • ILC - the International Linear Collider