Facilities: Off-Campus

Atlas barrel, photo credit CERN

In addition to our labs in Van Allen Hall and the IATL building, we also use these major facilities:


Accelerators:

  • CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
  • Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory


Very Large Array
Observatories:

  • Chandra X-ray Observatory
  • European Very Large Telescope (8 meter optical telescope)
  • Hubble Space Telescope
  • SWIFT (spacecraft observatory for gamma ray bursts)
  • VERITAS Ground-Based TeV Telescope Array
  • Very Large Array (VLA)
  • Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
  • Winer Observatory (Arizona)
  • XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory

Cluster satellite

Spacecraft:

  • Cassini
  • Cluster
  • Juno
  • Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS)
  • Mars Express
  • Radiation Belt Storm Probes





Large plasma device

UCLA:

  • Large Plasma Device


Black Brant Rocket


Sounding-Rocket Ranges:

  • Poker Flat Research Range
  • White Sands Missile Range