EXPERIMENTS

The Experimental Division's projects belong to five research lines:
  • Physics at the High Energy frontier, at the Tevatron in the USA and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
  • The nature of neutrinos, with experiments at accelerators (T2K, Japan) and in underground laboratories (Canfranc).
  • The High-Energy Universe, by means of MAGIC gamma-ray telescopes at La Palma (Canary Islands) and with future Cerenkov Telescope Array.
  • Observational Cosmology, surveying hundreds of millions of galaxies in the Southern and Northern skies to investigate Dark Energy.
  • Medical Physics, using X-ray imaging techniques for diagnostic purposes, and developing advanced solid state detectors and readout electronics.
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ATLAS
A Toroidal LHC Apparatus
ATLAS investigates a broad range of physics, including the search for the Higgs boson, extra dimensions, and new particles that could make up dark matter.
CDF
Collider Detector at Fermilab
The CDF and D0 experiments record proton-antiproton collisions at the TeVatron and will continue exploring the energy frontier in particle physics until the new LHC at CERN starts operations.
CTA
Cherenkov Telescope Array
It will be an advanced facility for ground based very- high-energy gamma ray astronomy, based on the observation of Cerenkov radiation.
DES
The Dark Energy Survey
The main goal of the project is to survey 5000 sq. deg. of the southern galactic sky, measuring positions on the sky, shapes and redshifts of about 300 million galaxies and 15000 galaxy clusters.
MAGIC
Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov
It is a new generation two-telescope system located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory at the La Palma Canary Island.
Medical Imaging
It is mainly focused on digital medical imaging
Solid state pixel detector are used in many detectors in the field of High Energy Physics and the aim of our research line is mold this existing technology into a useful form to service the interest of the public.
Neutrinos
The group is contributing to the new neutrino oscillation experiment, T2K.
The contributions of the IFAE group to the T2K experiment focus on the near detector, specifically in the construction of the time projection chamber and the refurbishing of the old magnet.
PAU
Physics of the Accelerating Universe
One of the most astonishing results in physics at the end of the twentieth century was the realization that the universe is expanding at an increasing speed.