List of accelerators in particle physics

A list of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed prior to the separation of particle physics from that field, are also included. Although a modern accelerator complex usually has several stages of accelerators, only accelerators whose output has been used directly for experiments are listed.

Early accelerators

These all used single beams with fixed targets. They tended to have very briefly-run, inexpensive, and unnamed experiments.

Cyclotrons

Fixed-target accelerators

More modern accelerators that were also run in fixed target mode; often, they will also have been run as colliders, or accelerated particles for use in subsequently-built colliders.

Electron-proton colliders

Ion colliders

Light sources

Hypothetical accelerators

Besides the real accelerators listed above, there are hypothetical accelerators often usedas hypothetical examples or optimistic projects by particle physicists.
* Planckatron is a term often used colloquially by particle physicists to describe the accelerator with a center-of-mass energy of the order of the Planck scale. It is estimated that the radius of the Planckatron has to be roughly the radius of the milky way.
* Eloisatron (Eurasiatic Long Intersecting Storage Accelerator) was a project of INFN headed by Antonio Zichichi at the Ettore Majorana Foundation in Erice, Sicily. The center-of-mass energy was planned to be 200 TeV, and the size was planned to span parts of Europe and Asia.
* Fermitron was an accelerator sketched by Enrico Fermi on a notepad in the 1940s proposing an accelerator in stable orbit around the earth.
* Arguably also in this category falls the Zevatron, a term used to describe hypothetical sources for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.

External links

*Judy Goldhaber, "Bevalac Had 40-Year Record of Historic Discoveries". October 9, 1992. http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Bevalac-nine-lives.html
* [http://pdg.lbl.gov/2005/reviews/collidersrpp.pdf High-energy collider parameters] from the [http://pdg.lbl.gov Particle Data Group]
* [http://www-elsa.physik.uni-bonn.de/accelerator_list.html Particle accelerators around the world]
* [http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Research-Review/Magazine/1981/ Lawrence and his laboratory] - a history of the early years of accelerator physics at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
* [http://documents.cern.ch/archive/cernrep/1994/94-01/p1.pdf A brief history and review of accelerators (11 pgs, PDF file)]
* [http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/history/beams.html SLAC beamlines over time]
* [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/mark.shtml Accelerators and detectors named Mark at SLAC]