Cosmic-ray and gamma-ray experiments
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Space experiments
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Balloon experiments
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Atmospheric Cherenkov experiments
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Atmospheric fluorescence experiments
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Air shower experiments with particle detectors
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Neutron monitors
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Other ground-based cosmic-ray experiments
Space experiments
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ACE [Advanced Composition Explorer]
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AGILE [Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero]
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AMS [Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer]
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ASCA [Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics]
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BeppoSAX [Satellite per Astronomia X]
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ChandraX-ray satellite
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CGRO [Compton Gamma Ray Observatory]
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Geotail (measures the Earth's magnetotail)
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GLAST [Gamma ray Large Area Space Telescope]
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GRANATgamma-ray satellite with several experiments
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HETE [High-Energy
Transient Experiment]
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IMP-8
(Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
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INTEGRAL [INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory]
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NINA
[New Instrument for Nuclear Analysis]
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PAMELA(magnet
spectrometer)
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Polar
(examines the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere)
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Rosat
X-ray satellite
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RXTE [Rossi
X-ray Timing Explorer]
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SAMPEX [Solar
Anomalous Magnetospheric Particle Explorer]
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Spectrum-X-Gamma
satelliteis a future mission
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Suzaku
X-ray satellite (Astro-E2 mission)
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SWIFT(gamma ray burst
mission)
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Ulysses
(explores interplanetary space at high solar latitudes)
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Voyager
(two spacecrafts heading towards interstellar space)
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WIND(explores solar
wind and plasma processes near the earth)
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XMM-Newton
[X-ray Multi-mirror Mission]
Some missions/experiments proposed or under development:
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ACCESS
[Advanced Cosmic ray Composition Experiment for the Space Station]
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AGILE [Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero]
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Andromeda(a
coded-aperture gamma-ray telescope)
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BLAST [Burst Locations
with an Arc Second Telescope]
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EUSO [Extreme Universe Space Observatory ]
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MEGA
[Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy]
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OWL [Orbiting Wide-angle Light-collectors]
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AESOP/LEE
[Anti-Electron Sub Orbital Payload / Low Energy Electrons]
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ANITA
[Antarctic Impulse Transient Array]
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ATIC [Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter]
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BaBy [Background Bypass]
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BESS [Balloon-borne Experiment]
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BETS [Balloon borne Electron Telescope with Scintillating fibers]
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CAPRICE
[Cosmic AntiParticle Ring Imaging Cherenkov Experiment]
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CREAM
[Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass Balloon Experiment]
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GRATIS [Gamma-Ray
Arcminute Telescope Imaging System]
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GRIP [Gamma Ray
Imaging Payload]
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GRIS
[Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer]
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HEAT
[High Energy Antimatter Telescope]
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HIREGS
[High Resolution Gamma-Ray and Hard X-Ray Spectrometer]
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IMAX [Isotope
Matter Antimatter Experiment]
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ISOMAX [Isotope
Magnet Experiment]
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JACEE
[Japanese-American Collaborative Emulsion Experiment]
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MASS [Matter
Antimatter Superconducting Spectrometer]
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RUNJOB
[RUssian-Nippon JOint Balloon Experiment]
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SMILI
[Superconducting Magnet Instrument for Light Isotopes]
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TIGRE [Tracking and Imaging Gamma Ray
Experiment]
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TIGER [Trans Iron Galactic Element Recorder]
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TRACER
[Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation]
Atmospheric Cherenkov experiments
Telescopes and telescope systems:
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CANGAROOat Woomera, Australia
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CAT
[Cherenkov Array at Thémis] (
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CLUE
[C(h)erenkov Light Ultraviolet Experiment]
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HEGRA Cherenkov Telescopes
on
La Palma, Canary Islands
- Narrabri, Australia: Mark 6 telescopes of the
University of Durham
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PACT
[Pachmarhi Array of C(h)erenkov telescopes]
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TACTIC
[TeV Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescope with Imaging Camera]
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Whipple Gamma-Ray
Telescopeon
Mt. Hopkins, Arizona
New telescope projects:
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CANGAROO-III
system of four 10 m telescopes in Australia
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H.E.S.S.
[High Energy Stereoscopic System]
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MAGIC
(a 17 m telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands)
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MACE
[Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescope Experiment]
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VERITAS
[Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System]
Solar power facilities as light collectors:
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CACTUS
[Converted Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Using Solar-2]
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CELESTE
[CErenkov Low Energy Sampling and Timing Experiment]
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GRAAL
[Gamma-Ray Astronomy at ALmeria] near Almeria, Spain
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STACEE
[Solar Tower Air Cherenkov Experiment] at Sandia Labs, New Mexico
Cherenkov counter arrays:
- AIROBICC (non-imaging counters in the
HEGRAarray)
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BLANCA
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TUNKA-25(array of non-imaging counters near Lake Baikal)
Other Cherenkov light detection concepts:
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SPHERE
(a balloon project looking for light reflected on snow)
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GAW Gamma Air Watch (a project using Fresnel lenses for imaging).
Atmospheric fluorescence experiments
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ASHRA [All-sky Survey High Resolution Air-shower detector]
-
Auger Project Fluorescence Group
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EUSO
[Extreme Universe Space Observatory ]
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HiResThe High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector
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OWL [Orbiting Wide-angle Light collectors]
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Telescope Array (multiple detectors for fluorescence light plus ground
array)
Air shower experiments with particle detectors
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AGASA
[Akeno Giant Air Shower Array]
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ARGO-YBJ: new experiment under construction in Tibet
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ASCE
[Air-Shower Core Experiment]
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Buckland Park Extensive Air Shower Array (Australia)
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CASA
[Chicago Air Shower Array]
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CRT
[Cosmic Ray Tracking]
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EAS-TOP experiment (Italy, above the
Gran Sasso
underground laboratory)
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Haverah Park
(former experiment of Leeds University)
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GRAND
[Gamma Ray Astrophysics at Notre Dame]
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GREX
[Gamma Ray Experiment]
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HEGRA
[High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy]
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KASCADE
[KArlsruhe Shower Core and Array DEtector]
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MILAGRO
(Water Cherenkov experiment near Los Alamos)
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Norikura
Observatoryin Japan
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Pierre Auger Project
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SPASE
2
[South Pole Air Shower Array]
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SUGAR
[Sydney University Giant Air shower Recorder]
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Tian-Shan Mountain Cosmic Ray Station
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Tibet AS-gamma experiment: scintillation counter array
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Bartol neutron monitor program
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Swiss Neutron monitors and SONTEL
[Solar Neutron Telescope Gornergrat]
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Mexico City neutron monitor data sets
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Moscow neutron
monitor
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Neutron
monitor data setsfrom the University of New Hampshire
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Neutron monitor data archive at NOAA
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Oulu Cosmic Ray Station
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Neutron monitors of the Potchefstroom University
in the southern hemisphere
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Neutron monitor data from Yerevan
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Lomnický Stít neutron monitor(Slovakia)
Other ground-based cosmic-ray experiments
Large-area detector networks
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ALTA
Alberta Large area Time coincidence Array
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CHICOS
California HIghschool Cosmic ray ObServatory
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CROP
[Cosmic Ray Observatory Project]
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HiSPARC
[High School Project on Astro-Physics Research with Cosmics]
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NALTA
[North American Large area Time coincidence Arrays]
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NYSCPT
[New York Schools Cosmic Particle Telescope]
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WALTA
[WAshington Large Area Time coincidence Array]
Shower detection by radio waves
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LOFAR [LOw Frequency ARray]
and the prototype station
LOPES
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CODALEMA
[Cosmics Detector Array Logarithmic ElectroMagnetic Antennas]
Other detectors/experiments
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Pamir
emulsion chamber experiment.
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University of Adelaide Cosmic Ray Muon Monitor
High-energy neutrino and underground muon experiments
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Neutrino experiments at particle accelerators
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Reactor neutrino experiments
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Underground neutrino experiments
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Underwater neutrino experiments
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Experiments in Antarctic ice
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Other cosmic neutrino experiments
Neutrino experiments at particle accelerators
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BooNE
[Booster Neutrino Experiment]
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CHORUS
[CERN Hybrid Oscillation Research apparatUS]
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COSMOS
[COsmologically Significant Mass Oscillation Search]
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KARMEN
[KArlsruhe Rutherford Intermediate Energy Neutrino Experiment]
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KEK-PS E362(K2K: KEK to Kamioka)
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LSND [Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector]
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MINOS
[Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search]
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NOE
[Neutrino Oscillation Experiment]
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NOMAD
[Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector]
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NuTeV(Fermilab experiment
E815)
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OPERA
[Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus]
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TAU(Fermilab experiment E 872)
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TOSCA
[Topological Oscillation Search with kinematiCal Analysis]
Reactor neutrino experiments
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CHOOZ
(reactor neutrino oscillations experiment, Ardennes, France)
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Double-CHOOZ
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HLMA
[High LMA-Solution of MSW-Effect]
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KamLAND(in the
Kamiokamine, Japan).
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MUNU
(at the Bugey nuclear power plant, France)
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Palo Verde neutrino oscillation experiment
Underground neutrino and muon experiments
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BOREXINOexperiment at Gran Sasso
-CERN underground muon experiments
Cosmics with L3and
CosmoLEP
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GALLEX
[GALLium EXperiment]
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GNO
[Gallium Neutrino Observatory]
-Various
GRAN SASSOexperiments
[GALLEX, LVD, MACRO]
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GERDA [GERmanium Detector Array]
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HELLAZ
[HELium á la tempèrature de L'AZote liquide]
-
HERON
R&D project
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ICARUS [Imaging Cosmic
And Rare Underground Signal]
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IMB
[Irvine Michigan Brookhave
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LENS
[Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy]
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LVD experiment
[Large Volume Detector] at Gran Sasso.
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MACRO
[Monopole, Astrophysics, Cosmic Rays]
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OMNIS
[Observatory for Multiflavor NeutrInos from Supernovae]
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SAGE
[Soviet-American Gallium Experiment]
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SNO
[Sudbury Neutrino Observatory]
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SOUDAN-2
(Tower-Soudan Iron Mine, Minnesota, USA)
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Super Kamiokando
Underwater neutrino experiments
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ANTARES
[Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch]
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Baikal (underwater
neutrino experiment in Lake Baikal, Russia)
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DUMAND [Deep Undersea Muon and Neutrino Detector], from Hawaii U.
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NEMO [NEutrino subMarine Observatory]
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NESTOR, planned for
deployment off the coast of Greece
Experiments in Antarctic ice (at the South Pole)
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AMANDA [Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector]
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IceCube (a kilometer-scale neutrino observatory)
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RAND [Radio Array Neutrino Detector]
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RICE [Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment]
Other cosmic neutrino experiments
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Goldstone
Other experiments
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CAST [CERN Axion Solar Telescope].
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CDMS [Cryogenic Dark Matter Search]
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CRESST
[Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers]
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DAMA
[particle DArk MAtter searches
with low activity scintillators]
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EDELWEISS
[Expérience pour DÉtecter Les WIMPs En SIte Souterrain]
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HDMS
[Heidelberg Dark Matter Search]
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UK-DMC
[UK Dark Matter Collaboration, Boulby Mine]
Gravitational wave experiments
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AURIGAand other experiments
form the
IGEC
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GEO 600
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LIGO
[Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory]
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LISA
[Laser Interferometer Space Antenna]
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LSU Gravitational Wave Experiment
(Louisiana State University)
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MiniGRAIL
[Gravitational Radiation Antenna In Leiden]
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Rome gravitational wave research group
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TAMA
Tokyo Advanced Medium-scale Antenna
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VIRGO
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Other gravitational physics activities
Simulation of cosmic ray air-showers
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CORSIKA
[COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade]
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Electron Gamma Shower (EGS)
web page at LBL (U.S.A.)
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Cosmos,
GENAS, and
EPICS
simulation codes by K. Kasahara (Japan)
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AIRES
[AIRshower Extended Simulations] at La Plata (Argentina)
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KASCADE
simulation program
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HEMAS-DPMair-shower simulation program
Miscellaneous sites of cosmic-ray and astroparticle research (sorted by region)
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Europe
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North America
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South America
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Australia
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Africa
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Asia
Armenia
- Yerevan:
Cosmic Ray Division, Yerevan Physics Institute
Denmark
- Copenhagen:
Danish Space Research Institute
Finnland
- Helsinki:
Astroparticle physics and cosmology
at Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki
- Pyhäsalmi:
Centre for Underground Physics in Pyhäsalmi (CUPP)
- Turku:
Space Research Laboratory, University of Turku
France
- Marseille:
Centre de Physique de Particules
- Palaiseau:
LPNHE at Ecole Polytechnique
- Paris:
LPNHE - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies
at University Paris VI-VII
- Paris:
Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaireat the Collège de France
Germany
- Berlin:
Humboldt University experimental particle physics group
- Bochum:
Theoretical space physics and astrophysics group
- Garching:
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
- Hamburg:
Group at
II. Institut für Experimentalphysik
- Heidelberg:
Cosmic Ray group at Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
- Karlsruhe:
Research Centreand
University
- Kiel:
Institut für
Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik
- Lindau:
Max-Planck-Institut für
Aeronomie
- Munich:
Max-Planck-Institut
für Physik
- Siegen:
astrophysics groupat University physics department
- Wuppertal:
group at University physics department
- Zeuthen:
Neutrino Astrophysics Group
Greece
- Pylos:
Nestor Insitute for Deep Sea Research,
Technology and Neutrino Astroparticle Physics
Ireland
- Dublin:
School of Cosmic Raysat
the
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- Dublin:
High Energy Astrophysicsat
the
University College Dublin
- Galway:
Gamma-ray Astronomy Group
at the
National University of Ireland
Italy
- Bologna:
INFN Bologna
- Milano:
Istituto di Fisica Cosmica
- Palermo:
IASF/CNR - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica
- Pisa:
INFN Pisa
- Rome:
INFN Roma 1
- Rome:
INFN Roma 2
Netherlands
-
Committee for Astroparticle Physics in The Netherlands
- Amsterdam:
Astronomical Institute
"Anton Pannekoek"
- Amsterdam:
NIKHEF
(National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics)
- Dwingeloo:
ASTRON
(The Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy)
- Nijmegen:
Astrophysics at Radboud University
- Utrecht:
Astronomical Institute
at the University of Utrecht
- Utrecht:
SRON(National Institute for Space Research)
Romania
- Bucharest-Magurele:
Institute of Space Sciences
Russia
-
Lebedev Physical Institute
-
Moscow State University:
High energy physics
and
Laboratory of High Energy Cosmic Radiation of the
Skobeltsyn Institute of
Nuclear Physics
Slovakia
- Kosice:
Institute of Experimental
Physics of the Slovak Academy of Science
Slovenia
-
Laboratory for Astroparticle Physicsat Nova Gorica Polytechnic
Spain
- Alcalá:
Space Plasmas and Astroparticle (SPAS) group-
Barcelona: Institute for high energy physics
- Madrid:
High energy physics groupat the Universidad Complutense
- Zaragoza:
High energy pyhsics lab
Sweden
- Stockholm:
Royal Institute of Technology
- Stockholm:
Elementary particle physics groupat the University of Stockholm.
- Uppsala:
Elementary particle and astroparticle physics research
at the Department of Radiation Sciences of the University of Uppsala.
- Uppsala:
Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Switzerland (including CERN)
- Geneva:
CERN:
CosmoLEP,
Cosmics with L3
- Bern:
University
United Kingdom
- Birmingham:
Development of space instrumentation
- Durham:
University of Durham physics department
- Leeds:
Astrophysics at Leeds University
- London:
Astrophysics groupat
Imperial College
- Nottingham:
Cosmic ray and astrophysics group
- Oxford:
Neutrino groups
at the
physics department
- Sheffield:
Particle astrophysics group
Serbia
- Belgrade:
Low Level Radiation Laboratory at the Institute of Physics
Canada
- Calgary:
Institute for Space Research
Mexico
- Mexico City:
Physics departmentat CINVESTAV
United States
-
NASA-
Goddard Space Flight Center(Greenbelt, Maryland):
-
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
-
High Energy Astrophysics Science
Archive Research Center
-
Compton Observatory
Science Support Center
- Albuquerque (New Mexico):
New Mexico Center for Particle Physics
- Ames (Iowa):
Physics Departmentat Iowa State University
- Ann Arbor (Michigan):
Physics Departmentat University of Michigan
- Baton Rouge (Louisiana):
Space Physics
Data System -- Cosmic Rays
- Berkeley (California):
LBL Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysicsand
neutrino astrophysics group.
- Boston (Massachusetts):
Boston University Physics Department
- Boulder (Colorado):
Cosmic ray data at the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
- Cambridge (Massachusetts):
High Energy Astrophysics Division
of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Chicago (Illinois):
University
of Chicago high energy physics groups
- College Park (Maryland):
Particle astrophysicsand
space physics
groups at the University of Maryland
- Huntsville (Alabama):
Astrophysics and Solar-Terrestial Researchat the University of Alabama
- Las Cruces (New Mexico):
R.L. Golden Particle Astrophysics Labat New Mexico State University
- Madison (Wisconsin):
Astrophysics at UW Madison Department of Physics
- Newark (Delaware):
Bartol Research
Institute
- Yew York (New York):
Physics departments at Columbia University
- Notre Dame (Indiana):
Astrophysics Group
- Pasadena (California):
California Institute of Technology - Space Radiation Laboratory
- Riverside (California):
UCR High Energy Astrophysics Group
- Salt Lake City (Utah):
Experimental
Astroparticle Physics at University of Utah
- San Diego (California):
Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
- Santa Cruz (California):
Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
- Seattle (Washington):
Particle Astrophysics Group at University of Washington
- Stanford (California): Stanford University
-
GLAST group at Stanford University
-
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology (KIPAC)
-
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Group K
- St. Louis (Missouri):
Washington University Laboratory for Experimental Astrophysics
and
McDonnell
Center for the Space Sciences
- West Lafayette (Indiana):
Purdue
University High Energy Astrophysics group
Argentina
-
TANDAR Laboratory, Buenos Aires
-
Auger group at University of La Plata
Brasil
-
Department of Cosmic Rays and Chronologyat the
University of Campinas
physics institute
- Rio de Janeiro:
LAFEX
(Cosmology and High Energy Physics Laboratory)
-
Astrophysics
Group, University of Adelaide
-
Cosmic
Ray group of the University of Tasmania, Hobart
Namibia
- Windhoek:
University of Namibia
South Africa
-
Gamma-Ray Astrophysics group at Potchefstroom University
China
-
Cosmic Ray and High Energy Astrophysics Laboratory
India
-
Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research, Bombay
-
High Energy Gamma Ray Observatoryat Pachmarhi
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Astrophysical Sciences Division of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centreat Mumbai
Japan
-
Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
(ICRR), University of Tokyo
-
Astro Particle
Physics Lab., University of Kobe
-
Cosmic Ray Lab.,
Yokohama National University
-
RIKEN Cosmic Radiation Laboratory
-
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University
-
Air shower group at Okayama University
-
Institute for Cosmic-Ray Physics, University of Osaka
-
Fujimoto Hasegawa Laboratory, Waseda University
-
Institute of Space and
Astronautical Science, Sagamihara (Tokyo)
South Korea
-
Pusan University Astrophysics Group