Particle Accelerators Around the World

Please note that this list does not include accelerators which are used for medical or industrial purposes only.

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Sorted by Location

Europe

AGOR Accelerateur Groningen-ORsay, KVI Groningen, Netherlands
ALBA Synchrotron Light Facility, Barcelona, Spain
ANKA Ångströmquelle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
ARRONAX Accelerator for Research in Radiochemistry and Oncology in Nantes Atlantique,Saint Herblain, France
BERLinPro Berlin Energy Recovery Linac Project, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany
BESSY II Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany
CeBeTeRad Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warszawa, Poland
CEMHTI Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation, Orléans, France
CERN Centre Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire, Geneva, Suisse (LHC, PS-Division, SL-Division)
CMAM Centro de Microanálisis de Materiales, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
CNA Centro Nacional de Aceleradores, Seville, Spain
COSY Cooler Synchrotron, IKP, FZ Jülich, Germany (COSY Status)
CYCLONE Cyclotron of Louvain la Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
DELTA Dortmunder ELekTronenspeicherring-Anlage, Zentrum für Synchrotronstrahlung der Technischen Universität Dortmund, Germany
DESY Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany (XFEL, PETRA III, FLASH, ILC, PITZ)
ELBE ELectron source with high Brilliance and low Emittance, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR), Germany
ELETTRA AREA Science Park, Trieste, Italy
ELSA Electron Stretcher Accelerator, Bonn University, Germany (ELSA status)
ELU-6e Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
ESSB ESS-Bilbao, Zamudio, Spain
GANIL Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds, Caen, France
GSI GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
HISKP Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Bonn, Germany (Isochron Cyclotron)
IHEP Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Moscow region, Russian Federation
INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy,
LNF - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (DAFNE, DAFNE beam test facility)
LNL - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (Tandem, CN Van de Graaff, AN 2000 Van de Graaff),
LNS - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, (Superconducting Cyclotron)
ISA Institute for Storage Ring Facilities (ASTRID, ASTRID2, ELISA), Aarhus, Denmark
ISIS Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, U.K.
JINR Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russian Federation (NICA)
JYFL Jyväskylän Yliopiston Fysiikan Laitos, Jyväskylä, Finland
MLLMaier-Leibnitz-Laboratorium: Accelerator of LMU and TU Muenchen, Munich, Germany
MAMI Mainzer Microtron, Universität Mainz, Germany
MAX IV Lund University, Sweden
MPI-HD Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
MIC Microanalytical center at JSI, Ljubljana, Slovenia
MLS Metrology Light Source, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
PITZ Photo Injector Test facility at DESY in Zeuthen, Germany
RUBION Zentrale Einrichtung für Ionenstrahlen und Radionuklide, Universität Bochum, Germany
S-DALINAC Superconducting Darmstadt linear accelerator, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
SLS Paul Scherrer Institut PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
SOLEIL Synchrotron SOLEIL, GIF-SUR-YVETTE CEDEX, France
TSL The Svedberg Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden

North America

88" Cycl. 88-Inch Cyclotron, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley, CA
ALS Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley, CA (ALS Status)
ANL Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL (Advanced Photon Source APS, Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System ATLAS)
BATES Bates Linear Accelerator Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (NSLS II, RHIC)
CAMD Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University
CENPA Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, USA
CESR Cornell Electron-positron Storage Ring, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
CHESS Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
CLS Canadian Light Source, U of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
CNLCrocker Nuclear Laboratory, University of California Davis, CA
FNAL Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , Batavia, IL
FSU John D. Fox Superconducting Accelerator Laboratory, Florida State University, USA
IAC Idaho accelerator center, Pocatello, Idaho
ISNAP Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics, Notre Dame University, USA
IUCF Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Bloomington, Indiana
JLab aka TJNAF, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (formerly known as CEBAF), Newport News, VA
LAC Louisiana Accelerator Center, U of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana
LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
MIBL Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory, University of Michigan
NSCL National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee
OUAL John E. Edwards Accelerator Laboratory, Ohio University, USA
PBPL Particle Beam Physics Lab (Neptune-Laboratory, PEGASUS - Photoelectron Generated Amplified Spontaneous Radition Source)
RPI The Gaerttner LINAC Laboratory, MANE School of Enginering, USA
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, (SLC - SLAC Linear electron positron Collider, SSRL - Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory)
SNS Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
SRC Synchrotron Radiation Center, U of Wisconsin - Madison
SURF III Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland
TAMU Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, USA
TRIUMF Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
TUNL Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, USA
UMASS University of Massachusetts Lowell Radiation Laboratory, USA
UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
WMU Van de Graaff Accelerator at the Physics Department of the Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
WNSL Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, USA

South America

CAB LINAC at Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina
LAFN Laboratório Aberto de Física Nuclear, São Paulo, Brazil
LNLS Laboratorio Nacional de Luz Sincrotron, Campinas SP, Brazil
RIBRAS Radioactive Ion Beam in Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
TANDAR Tandem Accelerator, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Asia

BEPC, BEPC II Beijing Electron-Positron Collider, Beijing, China
HLS Hefei Light Source, Univ. of Science & Technology of China, Hefei city, China
INDUS Centre for Advanced Technology CAT, INDORE, India
KEK National Laboratory for High Energy Physics ("Koh-Ene-Ken"), Tsukuba, Japan (KEK-B, 12 GeV proton synchrotron)
PAL Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, Korea
RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical Research ("Rikagaku Kenkyusho"), Hirosawa, Wako, Japan
SESAME Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, Jordan (under construction)
SPring-8 Super Photon ring - 8 GeV, Japan
SSRF Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai, China
TPS Taiwan Photon Source, Hsinchu, Taiwan
UAC Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, India
VECC Variable Energy Cyclotron, Calcutta, India
VEPP Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia (VEPP-3, VEPP-4M, VEPP-2000)

Africa

iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa

Australia

ANSTO Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, Australia
ANU Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
AS Australian Synchotron, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
MARC Micro-Analytical Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia


Sorted by Accelerator Type

Electrons

Stretcher Ring/Continuous Beam facilities

ELSA (Bonn U), JLab, MAMI (Mainz U), MAX IV, SLAC

Synchrotron Light Sources, Storage Rings

ALBA, ANKA, ALS (LBL), APS (ANL), AS, ASTRID (ISA), ASTRID2 (ISA), BESSY II, CAMD (LSU), CeBeTeRad, CHESS (Cornell Wilson Lab), CLS (U of Saskatchewan), DELTA (U of Dortmund), ELBE (HZDR), Elettra, ELISA (ISA), ELSA (Bonn U), ELU-6e, ESRF, HASYLAB (DESY), HLS, INDUS (CAT), MAX IV, MLS, LNLS, NSLS II, PAL, SESAME, SLS (PSI), SPEAR (SSRL, SLAC), SOLEIL, SPring-8, SRC (U of Wisconsin), SSRF, SURF III (NIST), TPS, TUNL

Other

BATES, IAC, Neptune, PEGASUS, PITZ, S-DALINAC, UNAM, WMU

Protons

ARRONAX, 88" Cyclotron (LBL), CERI, CNA, CNL (UC DAVIS), COSY (FZ Jülich), ISIS, IUCF, KEK, LHC (CERN), iThemba, PS (CERN), PSI, RHIC (BNL), SPS (CERN), TRIUMF, TSL

Light and Heavy Ions

ARRONAX, 88" Cyclotron (LBL), AGOR, ANSTO, ANU, ASTRID (ISA), CENPA, CMAM, CNL (UC DAVIS), ATLAS (ANL), CERI, CYCLONE, ESSB, GANIL, GSI, HISKP, ININ, ISNAP, iThemba, IUCF, JYFL, LAFN, LAC, LHC (CERN), LNL (INFN), LNS (INFN), Maier-Leibnitz-Laboratorium, MIBL, MIC, MPI-HD, NSCL, ORNL, OUAL, PSI, RHIC (BNL), RIBRAS, RUBION, SNS, SPS (CERN), TAMU, TANDAR, TSL, TUNL, NICA(JINR), UAC, UMASS, UNAM, VECC

Collider

BEPC II, CESR, DAFNE (LNF), KEK-B, LHC (CERN), RHIC (BNL), SLC (SLAC), TESLA (DESY), VEPP-3, VEPP-4M, VEPP-2000 (BINP)


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Last modification Wednesday, 28. September 2022, 12:06 - F. Frommberger