Different Accelerator Designs
We invite you to explore the basic plans of the
world's major accelerators so that
you can truly appreciate the differences in accelerator designs.
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SLAC:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, in
California, discovered the charm quark (also at Brookhaven) and tau lepton.
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Fermilab:
Fermi National Laboratory Accelerator, in Illinois,
where the bottom and top quarks were discovered.
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CERN:
European Laboratory for Particle Physics, crossing both
Switzerland and France, where the W and Z particles were discovered.
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Brookhaven National Lab: in New York;
simultaneously discovered the charm quark with SLAC.
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- CESR:
Cornell Electron-Positron Storage Ring, in New York.
CESR performs detailed studies of the bottom quark.
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DESY: in Germany; gluons were discovered here.
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KEK: in Japan, is constructing a B factory.
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IHEP:
Institute for High-Energy Physics, in the
People's Republic of China,
performs detailed studies of the tau lepton and charm quark.
If you want to visit these laboratories,
please look at our compilation of
other interesting sites.