Developing a Linear Collider

Professor Aidan Robson provides a summary of the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) experiment research at CERN.

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The PPE Group has a long record of construction and exploitation of experiments at CERNDESY and Fermilab and in related detector and information technologies.

The latest major international developments for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN are described here.

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is the second-largest machine in CERN’s accelerator complex.  Read more here.

 

CURRENT EXPERIMENTS

  

ATLAS is an experiment at CERN designed to explore the secrets of the universe.

(LHC Accelerator at CERN)

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LHCb is an experiment set up to explore what happened after the Big Bang that allowed matter to survive and build the Universe we inhabit today.

(LHC Accelerator at CERN)

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The experiment aims to collect about 80 K+-> pi+ nu nubar events at the SM prediction with a signal to background ratio of 10:1 in two years of data taking.

(SPS Accelerator at CERN)

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A Study of the Decay of π+ → e+ ν / π+ → μ+ ν.  A test of e-μ universality. 

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T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment in Japan, and is studying neutrino oscillations.

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FUTURE EXPERIMENTS

                          

The CLICdp collaboration consists currently of 30 institutions and is addressing detector and physics issues relevant for CLIC.

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The goal of the IDS-NF is to deliver a Reference Design Report in which the physics performance of the Neutrino Factory is detailed and the specification of each of the accelerator, diagnostic, and detector systems that make up the facility is defined.

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COMPLETED EXPERIMENTS

                            

The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experimental collaboration studies high energy proton-antiproton collisions from data collected through 2011.

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CDF at the University of Glasgow.

 

The ZEUS detector is a sophisticated tool for studying the particle reactions provided by the high-energetic beams of the HERA accelerator.

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ZEUS at the University of Glasgow.

 

To study hadron production for the neutrino factory and the atmospheric neutrino flux.

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ALEPH is a particle physics experiment installed at LEP, the large electron-positron collider at the CERN laboratory in Geneva/Switzerland.

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