TopicOnPhysicsResourcesAndMajorFacilities 2009-01-15 06:54:40 2009-01-15 07:11:51 Topic major facilities and resources for experimental and theoretical physics including computational physics % this is the default PlanetPhysics preamble. as your knowledge % there are many more packages, add them here as you need them % define commands here \usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, amsfonts, amsthm, amscd, latexsym} \usepackage{xypic} \usepackage[mathscr]{eucal} \theoremstyle{plain} \newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma}[section] \newtheorem{proposition}{Proposition}[section] \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section] \newtheorem{corollary}{Corollary}[section] \theoremstyle{definition} \newtheorem{definition}{Definition}[section] \newtheorem{example}{Example}[section] %\theoremstyle{remark} \newtheorem{remark}{Remark}[section] \newtheorem*{notation}{Notation} \newtheorem*{claim}{Claim} \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\ensuremath{\fnsymbol{footnote%%@ }}} \numberwithin{equation}{section} \newcommand{\Ad}{{\rm Ad}} \newcommand{\Aut}{{\rm Aut}} \newcommand{\Cl}{{\rm Cl}} \newcommand{\Co}{{\rm Co}} \newcommand{\DES}{{\rm DES}} \newcommand{\Diff}{{\rm Diff}} \newcommand{\Dom}{{\rm Dom}} \newcommand{\Hol}{{\rm Hol}} \newcommand{\Mon}{{\rm Mon}} \newcommand{\Hom}{{\rm Hom}} \newcommand{\Ker}{{\rm Ker}} \newcommand{\Ind}{{\rm Ind}} \newcommand{\IM}{{\rm Im}} \newcommand{\Is}{{\rm Is}} \newcommand{\ID}{{\rm id}} \newcommand{\GL}{{\rm GL}} \newcommand{\Iso}{{\rm Iso}} \newcommand{\Sem}{{\rm Sem}} \newcommand{\St}{{\rm St}} \newcommand{\Sym}{{\rm Sym}} \newcommand{\SU}{{\rm SU}} \newcommand{\Tor}{{\rm Tor}} \newcommand{\U}{{\rm U}} \newcommand{\A}{\mathcal A} \newcommand{\Ce}{\mathcal C} \newcommand{\D}{\mathcal D} \newcommand{\E}{\mathcal E} \newcommand{\F}{\mathcal F} \newcommand{\G}{\mathcal G} \newcommand{\Q}{\mathcal Q} \newcommand{\R}{\mathcal R} \newcommand{\cS}{\mathcal S} \newcommand{\cU}{\mathcal U} \newcommand{\W}{\mathcal W} \newcommand{\bA}{\mathbb{A}} \newcommand{\bB}{\mathbb{B}} \newcommand{\bC}{\mathbb{C}} \newcommand{\bD}{\mathbb{D}} \newcommand{\bE}{\mathbb{E}} \newcommand{\bF}{\mathbb{F}} \newcommand{\bG}{\mathbb{G}} \newcommand{\bK}{\mathbb{K}} \newcommand{\bM}{\mathbb{M}} \newcommand{\bN}{\mathbb{N}} \newcommand{\bO}{\mathbb{O}} \newcommand{\bP}{\mathbb{P}} \newcommand{\bR}{\mathbb{R}} \newcommand{\bV}{\mathbb{V}} \newcommand{\bZ}{\mathbb{Z}} \newcommand{\bfE}{\mathbf{E}} \newcommand{\bfX}{\mathbf{X}} \newcommand{\bfY}{\mathbf{Y}} \newcommand{\bfZ}{\mathbf{Z}} \renewcommand{\O}{\Omega} \renewcommand{\o}{\omega} \newcommand{\vp}{\varphi} \newcommand{\vep}{\varepsilon} \newcommand{\diag}{{\rm diag}} \newcommand{\grp}{{\mathbb G}} \newcommand{\dgrp}{{\mathbb D}} \newcommand{\desp}{{\mathbb D^{\rm{es}}}} \newcommand{\Geod}{{\rm Geod}} \newcommand{\geod}{{\rm geod}} \newcommand{\hgr}{{\mathbb H}} \newcommand{\mgr}{{\mathbb M}} \newcommand{\ob}{{\rm Ob}} \newcommand{\obg}{{\rm Ob(\mathbb G)}} \newcommand{\obgp}{{\rm Ob(\mathbb G')}} \newcommand{\obh}{{\rm Ob(\mathbb H)}} \newcommand{\Osmooth}{{\Omega^{\infty}(X,*)}} \newcommand{\ghomotop}{{\rho_2^{\square}}} \newcommand{\gcalp}{{\mathbb G(\mathcal P)}} \newcommand{\rf}{{R_{\mathcal F}}} \newcommand{\glob}{{\rm glob}} \newcommand{\loc}{{\rm loc}} \newcommand{\TOP}{{\rm TOP}} \newcommand{\wti}{\widetilde} \newcommand{\what}{\widehat} \renewcommand{\a}{\alpha} \newcommand{\be}{\beta} \newcommand{\ga}{\gamma} \newcommand{\Ga}{\Gamma} \newcommand{\de}{\delta} \newcommand{\del}{\partial} \newcommand{\ka}{\kappa} \newcommand{\si}{\sigma} \newcommand{\ta}{\tau} \newcommand{\lra}{{\longrightarrow}} \newcommand{\ra}{{\rightarrow}} \newcommand{\rat}{{\rightarrowtail}} \newcommand{\oset}[1]{\overset {#1}{\ra}} \newcommand{\osetl}[1]{\overset {#1}{\lra}} \newcommand{\hr}{{\hookrightarrow}} \section{Physics Resources and Major Facilities} This is a new contributed topic on major facilities and resources for experimental and theoretical physics, including computational physics: \begin{itemize} \item CERN = European High Energy Physics and TeV (superconducting) Super-collider Research Facility, in Geneva; also one of the most extensive archives of science papers in physics, medical/radiation physics, as well as preprints contributed from all over the world \item ANL = Argonne National Laboratory, at Batavia (45 miles West from Chicago), Illinois \item FNAL= Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory = \PMlinkexternal{Fermilab Tevatron}{http://www.fnal.gov/}, in Chicago, Illinois ( See also: \PMlinkexternal{$http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/pdfs/200812/dec_2008.pdf$}{http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/pdfs/200812/dec_2008.pdf}) \item SLAC = SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Synchrotron Radiation Facility, at \PMlinkexternal{Stanford, CA}{http://www6.slac.stanford.edu/AboutSLAC.aspx} \item ISIS = Brightest Neutron Source, International Neutron Experiments Facility at Harwell (near Oxford), UK \item DESY in Germany \item Brookhaven National Laboratory \item MIT National High Magnetic Fields Laboratory \item ITER= Experimental, International Tokamak Fusion Facilities in France and Japan \item British Tokamak Fusion Facility \item Princeton Tokamak Fusion Facility \item Dubna= Russian High Energy Physics Facility \item IHEP in Russia, \item Princeton Advanced Theoretical Physics Research Institute item The Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK \item Max Planck Institute, Germany \item Institute for Theoretical Physics Research, Germany \item Institute Louis Pasteur, Paris \item Trieste Advanced Theoretical Physics Research Institute \item Beckmann Advanced Research Institute for Science and Technology, Urbana-Champign, Illinois \item New Mexico, Extremely High Voltage testing Facility \item National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC \item High-field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and MRI Facilities \item High Power Laser Facilities \item Advanced Fluorescence and Correlation Spectroscopy Facilities \item ISS= Commercial Fluorescence Microscopy and Frequency Domain Fluorescence, Urbana, IL \item Experimental, Research Nuclear Reactors (RNRs) \item High-density Energy Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan \item Supercomputer National Centers \item National Centers for Nanotechnology, Material Science \item Institute of Physics, at Magurele - near Bucharest, in Romania \item Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, in Bucharest, Romania \item XYZ \item XYZ \item XYZ \item XYZ \item XYZ \item XYZ \item XYZ \item XYZ \end{itemize} \subsection{References} \PMlinkexternal{$http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/pdfs/200812/dec_2008.pdf$}{http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/pdfs/200812/dec_2008.pdf}