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.
SLAC:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, in
California, discovered the charm quark (also
discovered at Brookhaven) and tau lepton;
now running an accelerator producing huge numbers of B mesons.
Fermilab:
Fermi National Laboratory Accelerator, in Illinois,
where the bottom and top quarks
and the tau neutrino were discovered.
CERN:
European Laboratory for Particle Physics, crossing
the Swiss-French border, where the W and Z particles were discovered.
BNL: Brookhaven National Lab, in New York,
simultaneously with SLAC discovered the charm
quark.
CESR:
Cornell Electron-Positron Storage Ring, in New York.
CESR performs detailed studies of the bottom quark.
DESY:
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, in Germany; gluons were discovered here.
KEK:
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, in Japan, is
now running an accelerator producing huge numbers of B mesons.
IHEP:
Institute for High-Energy Physics, in the
People's Republic of China,
performs detailed studies of the tau lepton and charm quark.
