The Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP) (''LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas'') is a state-run Portuguese research laboratory created in 1986 under the sponsorship of the National Foundation for Science (FCT) of the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education. LIP has three main centers of activity, one in

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, one in

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and one in Braga. The majority of the research activities are done through international collaborations with institutions like

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gene ...

. The laboratory has about 180 members, among which are professors and scientists affiliated with the

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, the

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, the Technical University of Lisbon, the

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, the University of the Minho and the

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. LIP is involved in scientific research on issues related to high energy physics and instrumentation, working heavily with

, of which Portugal is a full member. LIP has also been involved in

space science Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider ...

projects with

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

, the

Pierre Auger Observatory The Pierre Auger Observatory is an international cosmic ray observatory in Argentina designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: sub-atomic particles traveling nearly at the speed of light and each with energies beyond 1018 eV. In Ear ...

, the SNOLAB, and the

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, and conducts research in

Monte Carlo method Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results. The underlying concept is to use randomness to solve problems that might be determi ...

s for medical physics. The laboratory is also involved in the

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project.

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