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List of Large Hadron Collider experiments
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<h2 id="large-hadron-collider-experiments">Large Hadron Collider experiments</h2> <p class="note">See also: <a href="/facts/Large_Hadron_Collider/XWJCFSqT">Large Hadron Collider</a></p> LHC experiments<table><tbody><tr><th>Experiment</th><th>Location</th><th>Spokesperson</th><th>Description</th><th>Proposed</th><th>Approved</th><th>Began</th><th>Completed</th><th>Link</th><th>Website</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/A_Large_Ion_Collider_Experiment/Nbg7fpEK">ALICE</a></td><td>IP2</td><td>Luciano Musa<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></td><td><i>A large ion collider experiment</i>: specialized on heavy ion collisions, with proton-proton collisions as reference</td><td>??</td><td>6 Feb 1997</td><td>30 March 2010</td><td>N/A</td><td><a href="https://inspirehep.net/record/1110642">Inspire</a><a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=ALICE">Grey Book</a></td><td><a href="http://aliweb.cern.ch">Website</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/ATLAS_experiment/hqWY5WQD">ATLAS</a></td><td>IP1</td><td>Andreas Hoecker<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></td><td><i>A toroidal LHC apparatus</i>: studying the <a href="/facts/Standard_Model/LhVGf9ow">Standard Model</a> and searching for Beyond Standard Model signatures primarily with proton collisions</td><td>Dec 1994</td><td>31 Jan 1996</td><td>30 March 2010</td><td>N/A</td><td><a href="https://inspirehep.net/record/1108541">Inspire</a><a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=ATLAS">Grey Book</a></td><td><a href="http://atlas.cern">Website</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Compact_Muon_Solenoid/zrdCWwVk">CMS</a></td><td>IP5</td><td>Luca Malgeri<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></td><td><i>Compact muon solenoid</i>: same purpose as for ATLAS</td><td>Oct 1992</td><td>31 Jan 1996</td><td>30 March 2010</td><td>N/A</td><td><a href="https://inspirehep.net/record/1108642">Inspire</a><a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=CMS">Grey Book</a></td><td><a href="http://cms.cern">Website</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/LHCb/PAlpBtnl">LHCb</a></td><td>IP8</td><td>Giovanni Passaleva<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></td><td><i>LHC beauty experiment</i>: studying primarily flavour physics with B-hadrons such as asymmetries and CP violations</td><td>??</td><td>17 Sep 1998</td><td>30 March 2010</td><td>N/A</td><td><a href="https://inspirehep.net/record/1110643">Inspire</a><a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=LHCB">Grey Book</a></td><td><a href="http://lhcb.web.cern.ch/lhcb/">Website</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/LHCf/Q0QRXtAd">LHCf</a></td><td>IP1</td><td>Yasushi Muraki<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></td><td><i>LHC-forward</i>: measurement of particles travelling close to the direction of the beam, simulating cosmic rays</td><td>??</td><td>12 May 2004</td><td>30 March 2010</td><td>N/A</td><td><a href="https://inspirehep.net/record/1126263">Inspire</a><a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=LHCF">Grey Book</a></td><td><a href="http://www.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/LHCf/">Website</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091020153240/http://www.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/LHCf/">Archived</a> 2009-10-20 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></td></tr><tr><td>MATHUSLA</td><td>IP1</td><td>Henry Lubatti</td><td><i>MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles</i>: Search for long lived particles and neutrinos at the LHC</td><td>2016<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></td><td>2017</td><td>2018 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Large_Hadron_Collider_experiments#endnote_b">[1]</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></td><td>N/A</td><td><a href="https://inspirehep.net/literature/1685035">Inspire</a><a href="https://inspirehep.net/literature/1814792">Inspire</a></td><td><a href="https://mathusla-experiment.web.cern.ch/">Website</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/MilliQan_Experiment/8uoRfTke">MilliQan</a></td><td>IP5</td><td>Christopher S. Hill, Andy Haas</td><td>Search for milli-charged particles at the LHC</td><td>15 July 2016<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></td><td>2016</td><td>2017<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></td><td>N/A</td><td><a href="https://inspirehep.net/experiments/1657745">Inspire</a><a href="https://inspirehep.net/literature/1796365">Inspire</a></td><td><a href="https://u.osu.edu/milliqan/">Website</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/MoEDAL_experiment/L2TPhscU">MOEDAL</a></td><td>IP8</td><td>James L. Pinfold<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></td><td>Monopole and exotic particle detector at the LHC</td><td>July 2009<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></td><td>2 December 2009<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></td><td>January 2011<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></td><td>N/A</td><td><a href="https://inspirehep.net/record/1110581">Inspire</a><a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=MoEDAL">Grey Book</a></td><td><a href="http://moedal.web.cern.ch/">Website</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/TOTEM/CsJeslzs">TOTEM</a></td><td>IP5</td><td>Simone Giani<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></td><td>Total cross section, elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation at the LHC</td><td>1999</td><td>18 May 1999</td><td>2010</td><td>N/A</td><td><a href="https://inspirehep.net/record/1110567">Inspire</a><a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=TOTEM">Grey Book</a></td><td><a href="http://totem.web.cern.ch/Totem/">Website</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/FASER_experiment/hQH9UU1u">FASER</a></td><td>IP1</td><td>Jamie Boyd, Jonathan Feng<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a></td><td><i>ForwArd Search ExpeRiment</i>: Search for long lived particles and neutrinos at the LHC</td><td>2017</td><td>5 March 2019<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></td><td>N/A</td><td>N/A</td><td><a href="http://inspirehep.net/record/1711193">Inspire</a><a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=FASER">Grey Book</a></td><td><a href="https://faser.web.cern.ch/">Website</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>MilliQan, MATHUSLA, FASER, LHCf, MOEDAL and TOTEM are much smaller than the other four experiments. Each is close to one of the larger experiments and uses the same collision point. </p> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> 1.^ Only a prototype has been approved and constructed so far, much smaller than the full proposed detector <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> Experiments <ul><li>List of CERN experiments</li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_Super_Proton_Synchrotron_experiments/gufj7ttu">List of Super Proton Synchrotron experiments</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_Proton_Synchrotron_experiments/phsJp3Cs">List of Proton Synchrotron experiments</a></li></ul> Facilities <ul><li><a href="/facts/CERN/y1gwRchm">CERN</a>: European Organization for Nuclear Research <ul><li><a href="/facts/Proton_Synchrotron/JhPI4c94">PS</a>: Proton Synchrotron</li> <li><a href="/facts/Super_Proton_Synchrotron/3qTKCxnR">SPS</a>: Super Proton Synchrotron</li> <li><a href="/facts/On-Line_Isotope_Mass_Separator/KdS4dvgM">ISOLDE</a>: On-Line Isotope Mass Separator</li> <li><a href="/facts/Intersecting_Storage_Rings/lsH4ufgF">ISR</a>: Intersecting Storage Rings</li> <li><a href="/facts/Large_Electron%E2%80%93Positron_Collider/8hxB4TKe">LEP</a>: Large Electron–Positron Collider</li> <li><a href="/facts/Large_Hadron_Collider/XWJCFSqT">LHC</a>: Large Hadron Collider</li> <li><a href="/facts/Antiproton_Decelerator/dwnr6Gsd">AD</a>: Antiproton Decelerator</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>SPIRES team. <a href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/">"SPIRES database"</a>. <a href="/facts/Stanford_Linear_Accelerator_Center/CzX2afas">Stanford Linear Accelerator Center</a>. Retrieved 2009-09-15.</li> <li><a href="http://greybook.cern.ch/">"Grey Book"</a>. <a href="/facts/CERN/y1gwRchm">CERN</a>. Retrieved 2009-09-15.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://public.web.cern.ch/public/">CERN website</a> <ul><li><a href="http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/">LHC website</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="http://greybook.cern.ch/">CERN Grey Book</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/">SPIRES database</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Experiment's detail <a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=ALICE" target="_blank">https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=ALICE</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>ATLAS Experiment's details (Accessed 2021-09-14) <a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=ATLAS" target="_blank">https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=ATLAS</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Experiment's detail <a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=CMS" target="_blank">https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=CMS</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"LHCb Organization". Archived from the original on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2017-09-08. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190712163531/https://lhcb-conv.web.cern.ch/lhcb-conv/StructureDefault.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20190712163531/https://lhcb-conv.web.cern.ch/lhcb-conv/StructureDefault.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Experiment's detail <a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=LHCF" target="_blank">https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=LHCF</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Chou, John Paul; Curtin, David; Lubatti, H.J. (2017). "New detectors to explore the lifetime frontier". Physics Letters B. 767: 29–36. arXiv:1606.06298. Bibcode:2017PhLB..767...29C. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.01.043. S2CID 118621993. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~mdiamond/MATHUSLA_seminar.pdf [bare URL PDF] <a href="https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~mdiamond/MATHUSLA_seminar.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~mdiamond/MATHUSLA_seminar.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Alidra, Maf; Alpigiani, Cristiano; Ball, Austin; Camarri, Paolo; Cardarelli, Roberto; Chou, John Paul; Curtin, David; Etzion, Erez; Garabaglu, Ali; Gomes, Brandon; Guida, Roberto; Kuykendall, W.; Kvam, Audrey; Lazic, Dragoslav; Lubatti, H.J.; Marsella, Giovanni; Mizrachi, Gilad; Policicchio, Antonio; Proffitt, Mason; Rothberg, Joe; Santonico, Rinaldo; Silver, Yiftah; Thayil, Steffie Ann; Torro-Pastor, Emma; Watts, Gordon; Young, Charles (2021). "The MATHUSLA test stand". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 985: 164661. arXiv:2005.02018. Bibcode:2021NIMPA.98564661A. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2020.164661. S2CID 218502711. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Ball, Austin; Brooke, Jim; Campagnari, Claudio; Albert De Roeck; Francis, Brian; Gastal, Martin; Golf, Frank; Goldstein, Joel; Haas, Andy; Hill, Christopher S.; Izaguirre, Eder; Kaplan, Benjamin; Magill, Gabriel; Marsh, Bennett; Miller, David; Prins, Theo; Shakeshaft, Harry; Stuart, David; Swiatlowski, Max; Yavin, Itay (2016). "A Letter of Intent to Install a milli-charged Particle Detector at LHC P5". arXiv:1607.04669 [physics.ins-det]. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>https://indico.cern.ch/event/706741/contributions/3017531/attachments/1667859/2674500/Haas_milliQan_PBC_cern_6-14-2018.pdf [bare URL PDF] <a href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/706741/contributions/3017531/attachments/1667859/2674500/Haas_milliQan_PBC_cern_6-14-2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://indico.cern.ch/event/706741/contributions/3017531/attachments/1667859/2674500/Haas_milliQan_PBC_cern_6-14-2018.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Ball, A.; et al. (2020). "Search for millicharged particles in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV". Physical Review D. 102 (3): 032002. arXiv:2005.06518. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.032002. S2CID 218628786. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Experiment's detail <a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=MoEDAL" target="_blank">https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=MoEDAL</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>James Pinfold (2010). "The MoEDAL TDR". Archived from the original on 2012-01-22. Retrieved 2010-04-11. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120122170515/http://web.me.com/jamespinfold/MoEDAL_site/TDR.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120122170515/http://web.me.com/jamespinfold/MoEDAL_site/TDR.html</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>James Pinfold (2010). "CERN Research Board Approves the MoEDAL Experiment". The MoEDAL Milestone Blog. Retrieved 2010-04-11. <a href="http://web.me.com/jamespinfold/MoEDAL_site/MoEDAL_Milestones/Entries/2009/12/2_CERN_Research_Board_Approves_the_MoEDAL_Experiment.html" target="_blank">http://web.me.com/jamespinfold/MoEDAL_site/MoEDAL_Milestones/Entries/2009/12/2_CERN_Research_Board_Approves_the_MoEDAL_Experiment.html</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>CERN Courier, "MoEDAL becomes the LHC's magnificent seventh", 5 May 2010 <a href="http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/42329" target="_blank">http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/42329</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Experiment's detail <a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=TOTEM" target="_blank">https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=TOTEM</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Experiment's detail <a href="https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=FASER" target="_blank">https://greybook.cern.ch/greybook/experiment/detail?id=FASER</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>Cristina Agrigoroae (2019). "FASER: CERN approves new experiment to look for long-lived, exotic particles". Retrieved 2019-03-07. <a href="https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/faser-cern-approves-new-experiment-look-long-lived-exotic-particles" target="_blank">https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/faser-cern-approves-new-experiment-look-long-lived-exotic-particles</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>