A fixed-target experiment in particle physics is an experiment in which a beam of accelerated particles is collided with a stationary target. The moving...

The Rutherford scattering experiments were a landmark series of experiments by which scientists learned that every atom has a nucleus where all of its...

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a neutrino experiment under construction in the United States, with a near detector at Fermilab, Illinois...

NA61/SHINE, led by Marek Gazdzicki. NA61/SHINE is the second largest fixed target experiment at CERN. The NA61/SHINE physics program has been designed to measure...

Experiment) and MicroBooNE (Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment). On-site experiments outside of the neutrino program include the SeaQuest fixed-target...

insight into the physics involved. To do such experiments there are two possible setups: Fixed target setup: A beam of particles (the projectiles) is...

rig), a semi-submersible oil platform Fermilab E-906/SeaQuest, a fixed target experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Seaquest (video game)...

individual particle collision. For fixed target experiments, the interaction point is the point where beam and target interact. For colliders, it is the...

NA58 experiment, or COMPASS (standing for "Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy") is a 60-metre-long fixed-target experiment at...

LBNL-Bevalac up to 158 GeV/nucleon at CERN-SPS. Experiments of this type, called "fixed-target" experiments, primarily accelerate a "bunch" of ions (typically...

The NA62 experiment (known as P-326 at the stage of the proposal) is a fixed-target particle physics experiment in the North Area of the SPS accelerator...

dark sector particles. It is a fixed target experiment in which an electron beam of energy between 100-150 GeV, strikes fixed atomic nuclei. The primary goal...

rays (GCRs) and aerosols under controlled conditions. This is a fixed-target experiment that began operation in November 2009, though it was originally...

ideas in his 1910 paper on beta particle scattering.: 277  In a 1909 experiment, Geiger and Marsden discovered that the metal foils could scatter some...

experiment aims to study the radiation process in strong electromagnetic fields. Located at CERN, in the North Area. It is a fixed-target experiment which...

between them. This can increase the energy enormously; whereas in a fixed-target experiment the energy available to produce new particles is proportional to...

to Kamioka") is a particle physics experiment studying the oscillations of the accelerator neutrinos. The experiment is conducted in Japan by the international...

particle detectors. As of June 2010[update], the MINOS, MINERνA and NOνA experiments use the NuMI beam. The first step in the production of the NuMI beam...

LHC injector and for new fixed-target experiments. New experiments started running in the East area, such as the CLOUD experiment. The PS complex was also...

electric dipole moment Neutron facilities Neutron scattering NPDGamma experiment In 2007, SNS was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the...

direct-photon and J/ψ production. The experiment is complementary to the UA1, UA2 and CDF experiments. UA6 is a fixed target experiment in which an internal H2 cluster...

Cherenkov detector experiment at Fermilab designed to observe neutrino oscillations (BooNE is an acronym for the Booster Neutrino Experiment). A neutrino beam...

of the ongoing fixed-target research program, where the SPS provides 400 GeV proton beams for a number of active fixed-target experiments, including COMPASS...

neon) injected inside the VELO volume, making it similar to a fixed-target experiment; this setup is usually referred to as "SMOG". These datasets allow...

gradually upgraded to 450 GeV. As well as having its own beamlines for fixed-target experiments (currently COMPASS and NA62), it has been operated as a proton–antiproton...

The Search for Hidden Particle (SHiP) is a proposed fixed-target experiment at CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) with the goal of searching for the...

recognized in Nobel Prizes. The ψ had previously been found in a fixed-target experiment at the Brookhaven AGS, where it was called the J, but it was better...

proton beam to 450 GeV and extract it from the accelerator for fixed-target experiments. However, already before the construction period of the SPS the...

the best constraints arise from fixed target experiments. As an example, the Heavy Photon Search (HPS) experiment at Jefferson Lab collides multi-GeV...

deconfined quark-gluon matter. To produce this state, fixed target experiments are used. A thin metal foil target is bombarded with a beam of heavy nuclei accelerated...