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Cosmic-ray and gamma-ray experiments
- Space experiments
- Balloon experiments
- Atmospheric Cherenkov experiments
- Atmospheric fluorescence experiments
- Air shower experiments with particle detectors
- Neutron monitors
- Other ground-based cosmic-ray experiments
- ACE [Advanced Composition Explorer]
- AGILE [Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero]
- AMS [Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer]
- ASCA [Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics]
- BeppoSAX [Satellite per Astronomia X]
- ChandraX-ray satellite
- CGRO [Compton Gamma Ray Observatory]
- Geotail (measures the Earth's magnetotail)
- GLAST [Gamma ray Large Area Space Telescope]
- GRANATgamma-ray satellite with several experiments
- HETE [High-Energy Transient Experiment]
- IMP-8 (Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
- INTEGRAL [INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory]
- NINA [New Instrument for Nuclear Analysis]
- PAMELA(magnet spectrometer)
- Polar (examines the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere)
- Rosat X-ray satellite
- RXTE [Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer]
- SAMPEX [Solar Anomalous Magnetospheric Particle Explorer]
- Spectrum-X-Gamma satelliteis a future mission
- Suzaku X-ray satellite (Astro-E2 mission)
- SWIFT(gamma ray burst mission)
- Ulysses (explores interplanetary space at high solar latitudes)
- Voyager (two spacecrafts heading towards interstellar space)
- WIND(explores solar wind and plasma processes near the earth)
- XMM-Newton [X-ray Multi-mirror Mission]
Some missions/experiments proposed or under development:
- ACCESS [Advanced Cosmic ray Composition Experiment for the Space Station]
- AGILE [Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero]
- Andromeda(a coded-aperture gamma-ray telescope)
- BLAST [Burst Locations with an Arc Second Telescope]
- EUSO [Extreme Universe Space Observatory ]
- MEGA [Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy]
- OWL [Orbiting Wide-angle Light-collectors]
- AESOP/LEE [Anti-Electron Sub Orbital Payload / Low Energy Electrons]
- ANITA [Antarctic Impulse Transient Array]
- ATIC [Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter]
- BaBy [Background Bypass]
- BESS [Balloon-borne Experiment]
- BETS [Balloon borne Electron Telescope with Scintillating fibers]
- CAPRICE [Cosmic AntiParticle Ring Imaging Cherenkov Experiment]
- CREAM [Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass Balloon Experiment]
- GRATIS [Gamma-Ray Arcminute Telescope Imaging System]
- GRIP [Gamma Ray Imaging Payload]
- GRIS [Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometer]
- HEAT [High Energy Antimatter Telescope]
- HIREGS [High Resolution Gamma-Ray and Hard X-Ray Spectrometer]
- IMAX [Isotope Matter Antimatter Experiment]
- ISOMAX [Isotope Magnet Experiment]
- JACEE [Japanese-American Collaborative Emulsion Experiment]
- MASS.. [Matter Antimatter Superconducting Spectrometer]
- RUNJOB [RUssian-Nippon JOint Balloon Experiment]
- SMILI [Superconducting Magnet Instrument for Light Isotopes]
- TIGRE [Tracking and Imaging Gamma Ray Experiment]
- TIGER [Trans Iron Galactic Element Recorder]
- TRACER [Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation]
Telescopes and telescope systems:
- CANGAROOat Woomera, Australia
- CAT [Cherenkov Array at Thémis] (
- CLUE [C(h)erenkov Light Ultraviolet Experiment]
- HEGRA Cherenkov Telescopes on La Palma, Canary Islands
- Narrabri, Australia: Mark 6 telescopes of the University of Durham
- PACT [Pachmarhi Array of C(h)erenkov telescopes]
- TACTIC [TeV Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescope with Imaging Camera]
- Whipple Gamma-Ray Telescopeon Mt. Hopkins, Arizona
New telescope projects:
- CANGAROO-III system of four 10 m telescopes in Australia
- H.E.S.S. [High Energy Stereoscopic System]
- MAGIC (a 17 m telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands)
- MACE [Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescope Experiment]
- VERITAS [Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System]
Solar power facilities as light collectors:
- CACTUS [Converted Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Using Solar-2]
- CELESTE [CErenkov Low Energy Sampling and Timing Experiment]
- GRAAL [Gamma-Ray Astronomy at ALmeria] near Almeria, Spain
- STACEE [Solar Tower Air Cherenkov Experiment] at Sandia Labs, New Mexico
Cherenkov counter arrays:
- AIROBICC (non-imaging counters in the HEGRAarray)
- BLANCA
- TUNKA-25(array of non-imaging counters near Lake Baikal)
Other Cherenkov light detection concepts:
- SPHERE (a balloon project looking for light reflected on snow)
- GAW Gamma Air Watch (a project using Fresnel lenses for imaging).
- ASHRA [All-sky Survey High Resolution Air-shower detector]
- Auger Project Fluorescence Group
- EUSO [Extreme Universe Space Observatory ]
- HiResThe High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector
- OWL [Orbiting Wide-angle Light collectors]
-
Telescope Array (multiple detectors for fluorescence light plus ground
array)
- AGASA [Akeno Giant Air Shower Array]
- ARGO-YBJ: new experiment under construction in Tibet
- ASCE [Air-Shower Core Experiment]
- Buckland Park Extensive Air Shower Array (Australia)
- CASA [Chicago Air Shower Array]
- CRT [Cosmic Ray Tracking]
- EAS-TOP experiment (Italy, above the Gran Sasso underground laboratory)
- Haverah Park (former experiment of Leeds University)
- GRAND [Gamma Ray Astrophysics at Notre Dame]
- GREX [Gamma Ray Experiment]
- HEGRA [High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy]
- KASCADE [KArlsruhe Shower Core and Array DEtector]
- MILAGRO (Water Cherenkov experiment near Los Alamos)
- Norikura Observatoryin Japan
- Pierre Auger Project
- SPASE 2 [South Pole Air Shower Array]
- SUGAR [Sydney University Giant Air shower Recorder]
- Tian-Shan Mountain Cosmic Ray Station
- Tibet AS-gamma experiment: scintillation counter array
- Bartol neutron monitor program
- Swiss Neutron monitors and SONTEL [Solar Neutron Telescope Gornergrat]
- Mexico City neutron monitor data sets
- Moscow neutron monitor
- Neutron monitor data setsfrom the University of New Hampshire
- Neutron monitor data archive at NOAA
- Oulu Cosmic Ray Station
- Neutron monitors of the Potchefstroom University in the southern hemisphere
- Neutron monitor data from Yerevan
- Lomnický Stít neutron monitor(Slovakia)
Large-area detector networks
- ALTA Alberta Large area Time coincidence Array
- CHICOS California HIghschool Cosmic ray ObServatory
- CROP [Cosmic Ray Observatory Project]
- HiSPARC [High School Project on Astro-Physics Research with Cosmics]
- NALTA [North American Large area Time coincidence Arrays]
- NYSCPT [New York Schools Cosmic Particle Telescope]
- WALTA [WAshington Large Area Time coincidence Array]
Shower detection by radio waves
- LOFAR [LOw Frequency ARray] and the prototype station LOPES
- CODALEMA [Cosmics Detector Array Logarithmic ElectroMagnetic Antennas]
Other detectors/experiments
- Pamir emulsion chamber experiment.
- University of Adelaide Cosmic Ray Muon Monitor
High-energy neutrino and underground muon experiments
- Neutrino experiments at particle accelerators
- Reactor neutrino experiments
- Underground neutrino experiments
- Underwater neutrino experiments
- Experiments in Antarctic ice
- Other cosmic neutrino experiments
- BooNE [Booster Neutrino Experiment]
- CHORUS [CERN Hybrid Oscillation Research apparatUS]
- COSMOS [COsmologically Significant Mass Oscillation Search]
- KARMEN [KArlsruhe Rutherford Intermediate Energy Neutrino Experiment]
- KEK-PS E362(K2K: KEK to Kamioka)
- LSND [Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector]
- MINOS [Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search]
- NOE [Neutrino Oscillation Experiment]
- NOMAD [Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector]
- NuTeV(Fermilab experiment E815)
- OPERA [Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus]
- TAU(Fermilab experiment E 872)
- TOSCA [Topological Oscillation Search with kinematiCal Analysis]
- CHOOZ (reactor neutrino oscillations experiment, Ardennes, France)
- Double-CHOOZ
- HLMA [High LMA-Solution of MSW-Effect]
- KamLAND(in the Kamiokamine, Japan).
- MUNU (at the Bugey nuclear power plant, France)
- Palo Verde neutrino oscillation experiment
- BOREXINOexperiment at Gran Sasso
- CERN underground muon experiments Cosmics with L3and CosmoLEP
- GALLEX [GALLium EXperiment]
- GNO [Gallium Neutrino Observatory]
- Various GRAN SASSOexperiments [GALLEX, LVD, MACRO]
- GERDA [GERmanium Detector Array]
- HELLAZ [HELium á la tempèrature de L'AZote liquide]
- HERON R&D project
- ICARUS [Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signal]
- IMB [Irvine Michigan Brookhave
- LENS [Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy]
- LVD experiment [Large Volume Detector] at Gran Sasso.
- MACRO [Monopole, Astrophysics, Cosmic Rays]
- OMNIS [Observatory for Multiflavor NeutrInos from Supernovae]
- SAGE [Soviet-American Gallium Experiment]
- SNO [Sudbury Neutrino Observatory]
- SOUDAN-2 (Tower-Soudan Iron Mine, Minnesota, USA)
- Super Kamiokando
- ANTARES [Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch]
- Baikal(underwater neutrino experiment in Lake Baikal, Russia)
- DUMAND [Deep Undersea Muon and Neutrino Detector], from Hawaii U.
- NEMO [NEutrino subMarine Observatory]
- NESTOR, planned for deployment off the coast of Greece
- AMANDA [Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector]
- IceCube (a kilometer-scale neutrino observatory)
- RAND [Radio Array Neutrino Detector]
- RICE [Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment]
Other experiments
- CAST [CERN Axion Solar Telescope].
- CDMS [Cryogenic Dark Matter Search]
- CRESST [Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers]
- DAMA [particle DArk MAtter searches with low activity scintillators]
- EDELWEISS [Expérience pour DÉtecter Les WIMPs En SIte Souterrain]
- HDMS [Heidelberg Dark Matter Search]
- UK-DMC [UK Dark Matter Collaboration, Boulby Mine]
- AURIGAand other experiments form the IGEC
- GEO 600
- LIGO [Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory]
- LISA [Laser Interferometer Space Antenna]
- LSU Gravitational Wave Experiment (Louisiana State University)
- MiniGRAIL [Gravitational Radiation Antenna In Leiden]
- Rome gravitational wave research group
- TAMA Tokyo Advanced Medium-scale Antenna
- VIRGO
- Other gravitational physics activities
Simulation of cosmic ray air-showers
- CORSIKA [COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade]
- Electron Gamma Shower (EGS) web page at LBL (U.S.A.)
- Cosmos, GENAS, and EPICS simulation codes by K. Kasahara (Japan)
- AIRES [AIRshower Extended Simulations] at La Plata (Argentina)
- KASCADE simulation program
- HEMAS-DPMair-shower simulation program
Miscellaneous sites of cosmic-ray and astroparticle research (sorted by region)
- Armenia
- 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
- 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
- Slovakia
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Namibia
- Windhoek: University of Namibia
- South Africa
- China
- India
- 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