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How Do We Experiment With Tiny Particles? : The Major Accelerators
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.
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