- IFAE
The Institute for High Energy Physics (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies, IFAE) of
Barcelona ,Spain , is a Public Consortium between theGeneralitat de Catalunya (Government of the Autonomous Community ofCatalonia ) and theUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). It was formally created on July 16th, 1991,by Act number 159/1991 of the Generalitat. As an organization it is independent from both theUAB and the Generalitat, ruled by its own Statutes, and governed by a Governing Board.It is located on the campus of UAB in Bellaterra, Barcelona.The IFAE has its own Titular Personnel as well as Associated Personnel consisting on membersof the Physics Department of UAB working on Particle Physics. It has also an agreement withUniversitat de Barcelona (dated 8/7/1992) which also allows the faculty of that universityworking on Particle Physics to be Associated Personnel of IFAE.
The IFAE is also adscribed to the UAB as a University Institute (Act number 231/1995 of theGeneralitat) which allows its members to teach in its Doctoral Programme in Physics, and thusbenefits from a productive symbiotic relationship with this major education and research institution.
The institute is dedicated to forefront experimental and theoretical research in the fields ofhigh energy physics and high energy astrophysics as well as in related technologies.
Current Projects
*Detector construction, algorithm development and Monte Carlo simulation for the ATLAS experiment at the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under construction at the European Center forHigh Energy Physics (CERN );
*Experiment design and construction of the MAGIC high energy gamma-ray telescope, under operation since 2004 in theCanary Islands , Spain;
*Development of a novel X-ray detector technique for use in medical imaging;
*Analysis of data from the K2KNeutrino Experiment inJapan , preparation for the next generation neutrino experiment JHF-nuT2K and development of the SciBooNE experiment.
*Development of an Information Data Grid in connection with the LHC computing;
*Many projects in theoretical Particle Physics.External links
* [http://www.ifae.es IFAE official web page]
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