This is a list of past and current experiments at the
CERN Proton Synchrotron
The Proton Synchrotron (PS, sometimes also referred to as CPS) is a particle accelerator at CERN. It is CERN's first synchrotron, beginning its operation in 1959. For a brief period the PS was the world's highest energy particle accelerator. It ...
(PS) facility since its commissioning in 1959.
The PS was CERN's first
synchrotron
A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed p ...
and the world's highest energy
particle accelerator
A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel electric charge, charged particles to very high speeds and energies, and to contain them in well-defined particle beam, beams.
Large accelerators are used for fun ...
at the time. It served as the flagship of CERN until the 1980s when its main role became to provide injection beams to other machines such as the
Super Proton Synchrotron
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN. It is housed in a circular tunnel, in circumference, straddling the border of France and Switzerland near Geneva, Switzerland.
History
The SPS was d ...
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database.
See also
Experiments
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List of Super Proton Synchrotron experiments
This is a list of past and current experiments at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) facility since its commissioning in 1976. The SPS was used as the main particle collider for many experiments, and has been adapted to various purpose ever ...
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List of Large Hadron Collider experiments
This is a list of experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is the most energetic particle collider in the world, and is used to test the accuracy of the Standard Model, and to look for physics beyond the Standard Model such as s ...
; Facilities
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CERN: European Organization for Nuclear Research
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PS: Proton Synchrotron
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SPS: Super Proton Synchrotron
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ISOLDE: On-Line Isotope Mass Separator
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ISR: Intersecting Storage Rings
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LEP: Large Electron–Positron Collider
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LHC
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundr ...
: Large Hadron Collider
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