CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world’s largest centre for research in particle physics, with several interlinked accelerators that provide many kinds of particle for many different experiments. It was founded in 1954, and now it has become a prime example of international collaboration, with currently 20 Member States. It sits astride the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.  More about CERN |
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LHC
CERN is currently building a new accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). This machine is being installed in the tunnel which housed the previous machine, LEP, and it will produce head-on collisions between two beams of either protons or lead ions. Four huge detectors – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – will observe the collisions so that the physicists can explore new territory in matter, energy, space, and time. More about LHC
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LHCb
The LHCb detector will register the collisions between pairs of anti-beauty and beauty quarks. Its goal is to detect a bigger asymmetry that will help explain how it is that nature prefers matter to antimatter. More about the LHCb
The Group of Experimental High Energy Physics of the ICC works in the construction of a part of the LHCb, the subdetector SPD (Scintillator Pad Detector). More about the SPD
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GRID
The LHC experiments will generate an enormous amount of data. CERN is currently developing new networking technology called the GRID, a worldwide network of computers to analyse all this data. GRID will link tens of thousands of computers worldwide to create a vast global computing resource for the LHC experiments.More about the GRID
A farm of PC's integrated in GRID is working at the ICC since 2002.
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SLAC
SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) is one of the world's leading research laboratories. Established in 1962 at Stanford University in Menlo Park, California, its mission is to design, construct and operate state-of-the-art electron accelerators and related experimental facilities for use in high-energy physics and synchrotron radiation research. It is enriched by over 3,000 visiting scientists from universities, laboratories and industrial concerns from the U.S. and all over the world. More about SLAC |
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BABAR
BABAR is a detector located in SLAC which physicists use to study the difference between matter and antimatter.More about BABAR
The Group of Experimental High Energy Physics of the ICC works in the
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ILC
The ILC (International Linear Collider) is a proposed particle accelerator that will complement the scientifical results given at LHC. It is planned to consist of two linear accelerators facing each other, and it will collide electrons and positrons. In a first stage of the project, the ILC will be 35 kilometres in length and the beams will collide at 500 billion-electron-volts (GeV).More about the ILC |
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