Physics & Astronomy

Facilities Used by Physics & Astronomy

Floorplan of the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory

On-campus research facilities include an electronics shop and an instrument construction shop; NMR spectrometers; cryostats capable of reaching millikelvin temperatures; facilities for metal, semiconductor, and organic thin-film deposition; ultraclean rooms; facilities for crystal growth and orientation; and several electron microscopes and scanning-tunneling microscopy systems. The University also has equipment for making measurements involving ultrasonic sound, lasers and nonlinear optics, magnetism, and X-ray scattering.

Our faculty and students make extensive use of major research facilities throughout the world, including the following:

Astrophysics
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
ConstellationÂ X (Satellite Array)
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Observer
Hubble Space Telescope
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
Multiple Mirror Telescope
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer
Spitzer Space Telescope

Condensed-Matter Physics
Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory)
National Synchrotron Light Source (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Northwestern University Materials Research Center

High Energy and Medium Energy Physics
Argonne National Laboratory (ATLAS Accelerator)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (Experiment E852)
CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) Large Hadron Collider
Compact Muon Solenoid (at CERN)
Experiment NA48 (at CERN)
Compact Linear Collider (CLIC at CERN)
Cornell Synchrotron (CLEO Collaboration)
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (D0 Experiment)
Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF)
Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory (Hall A)