List of Mexican Institutions participating in Particle and Astroparticle Physics (as given by the SPIRES database)

List of International Experiments in Particle and Astroparticle Physics with Participation of Mexican Institutions (as given by the SPIRES database)

            Additional Experiments to the above list:

            Pierre Auger Observatory [Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays]
                                Auger Mexican WEB Page
            ALICE [A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN LHC]
            CREAM [Primary Cosmic Ray Composition using Ultra Long Duration Balloon Flights]
               AMS [Experiment in Space to search for Dark Matter and Antimatter]
               Qweak [A new precision measurement of parity violating electron scattering on the proton at very low Q²]
               PV DIS [Parity Violation in Deep Inelastic Scattering]
               P326 - NA48/3 [K+-> pi+ nu nubar Rare Decay Experiment]
 
 
 

Deep Underground  Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) (Reference to the Main WEB page of DUSEL)

Current Experiments in Particle and Astroparticle Physics (Reference to a WEB page from  the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg)

List of  Neutrino and Underground Experiments (taken from the above WEB page)

High-energy neutrino and underground muon experiments

Neutrino experiments at particle accelerators
(including long-baseline neutrino beams)

• BooNE [Booster Neutrino Experiment]: planned experiment at Fermilab
• CHORUS [CERN Hybrid Oscillation Research apparatUS]: experiment at CERN
• COSMOS [COsmologically Significant Mass Oscillation Search]: Experiment E803 at FermiLab (??)
• KARMEN [KArlsruhe Rutherford Intermediate Energy Neutrino Experiment]
• KEK-PS E362 (K2K: KEK to Kamioka) New long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment from KEK PS to SuperKamiokande
• LSND [Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector] at Los Alamos
• MINOS [Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search] Long-baseline experiment with neutrino beam from FNAL to Soudan. For live event display go here.
• NOE [Neutrino Oscillation Experiment]: planned CERN to Gran Sasso long-baseline experiment.
• NOMAD [Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector] experiment at CERN.
• NuTeV (Fermilab experiment E815, measures mainly sin²theta_w).
• OPERA [Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus]: proposed CERN to Gran Sasso long-baseline experiment.
• TAU (Fermilab experiment E 872)
• TOSCA [Topological Oscillation Search with kinematiCal Analysis]: intended CERN short-baseline experiment.

Reactor neutrino experiments

• CHOOZ (reactor neutrino oscillations experiment, Ardennes, France)
• Double-CHOOZ (a project to measure the theta_1_3 neutrino mixing parameter)
• HLMA [High LMA-Solution of MSW-Effect] a project study for reactor neutrino measurements complementing KamLAND.
• KamLAND (in the Kamioka mine, Japan).
• MUNU (at the Bugey nuclear power plant, France).
• Palo Verde neutrino oscillation experiment (See also here.)

Underground neutrino and muon experiments

• BOREXINO experiment at Gran Sasso (see, among others, also pages of the Princeton, Munich, and Heidelberg groups).
• CERN underground muon experiments Cosmics with L3 and CosmoLEP
• GALLEX [GALLium EXperiment] a former solar neutrino experiment at Gran Sasso
• GNO [Gallium Neutrino Observatory] is the successor project of GALLEX. See also here.
• Various GRAN SASSO experiments [GALLEX, LVD, MACRO, and others]
• GERDA [GERmanium Detector Array] at LNGS
• HELLAZ [HELium á la tempèrature de L'AZote liquide] (proposed but discontinued solar neutrino detector project; see also French page)
• HERON R&D project
• Homestake chlorine experiment (no link known).
• ICARUS [Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signal]: Liquid argon TPC detector to be build at Gran Sasso.
• IMB [Irvine Michigan Brookhaven] experiment. (Link unavailable, see experiment entry here or visit this page.)
• LENS [Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy] project for sub-MeV solar neutrino spectrum.
• LVD experiment [Large Volume Detector] at Gran Sasso.
• MACRO [Monopole, Astrophysics, Cosmic Rays] (see also pages prepared by Boston, Caltech, and Pisa participants).
• OMNIS [Observatory for Multiflavor NeutrInos from Supernovae]
• SAGE [Soviet-American Gallium Experiment]
• SNO [Sudbury Neutrino Observatory] (see also pages at U. of Washington, U. of Guelph, and LBNL)
• SOUDAN-2 (Tower-Soudan Iron Mine, Minnesota, USA, operated until 2001). See also here.
• Super Kamiokando (S-K): see also the S-K pages from SeattleIrvine, and Hawaii)

Underwater neutrino experiments

• 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. (Unreliable link, see also experiment entry here.)

Experiments in Antarctic ice (at the South Pole)

• AMANDA [Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector]. (See also the AMANDA page from Wisconsin)
• IceCube (a kilometer-scale neutrino observatory)
• RAND [Radio Array Neutrino Detector]
• RICE [Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment]

Other cosmic neutrino experiments

• Goldstone(searching for radio signals from UHE neutrino interactions in the moon)

Dark matter searches

• For introductions to and some history of dark matter see, for example, here and here.
• A more complete collection of dark matter experiments than here can be found, for example, on these pages of the the CDMS at UCSB group.
• Direct searches:
• CAST [CERN Axion Solar Telescope].
• CDMS [Cryogenic Dark Matter Search].
• CRESST [Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers], see also here and here.
• DAMA [particle DArk MAtter searches with low activity scintillators] at Gran Sasso
• EDELWEISS [Expérience pour DÉtecter Les WIMPs En SIte Souterrain]
• HDMS [Heidelberg Dark Matter Search]
• UK-DMC [UK Dark Matter Collaboration, Boulby Mine]

(with links to other dark matter searches)
• Searches for microlensing:

For links to microlensing searches of MACHOs see for example here.

Last Update
January 31, 2007
Luis Villaseñor
villasen@ifm.umich.mx