PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY INTERACTIONS IN POLAND

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Universities and Research Institutes:


High energy experiments which Polish institutions participate in:

Accelerator Experiment Polish institutions Programme Physics start date
Current experiments
CERN - LEP DELPHI AGH University of Science and Technology
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Warsaw University, Institute for Nuclear Studies
Tests of the Standard Model
Precise measurement of the W mass
Search for a Higgs boson
Search for the lightest supersymmetric particles
1989
DESY - HERA ZEUS AGH University of Science and Technology
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Warsaw University, Institute for Nuclear Studies
Study of deep inelastic ep scattering
Study of photoproduction
Determination of photon and proton structure functions
Tests of the Standard Model
1992
DESY - HERA H-1 Institute of Nuclear Physics Study of deep inelastic ep scattering
Study of photoproduction
Determination of photon and proton structure functions
Tests of the Standard Model
1992
CERN - SPS  SMC NA-47  Institute for Nuclear Studies  Study of nucleon spin structure 1993
CERN - SPS  WA-98  Institute for Nuclear Studies  Study of photon and hadron production in heavy nuclei collisions 1994
CERN - SPS NA-49 Swietokrzyska Academy, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw University, Institute for Nuclear Studies Study of the production of hadrons in heavy nuclei collisions
Search for the quark deconfinement transition
1995
KAMIOKA OBSERVATORY SUPER-KAMIOKANDE Warsaw University Search for neutrino oscillations
Search for a proton decay
1996
KEK - KAMIOKA OBSERVATORY K2K  Warsaw University  Search for neutrino oscillations
for neutrinos from KEK
1999
KEK B-factory BELLE Institute of Nuclear Physics Study of CP violation in B meson decays
Study of B meson properties
1999
BNL - RHIC PHOBOS Jagiellonian University
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Measurement and identification of slow hadrons in heavy nuclei collisions
Study of a quark-gluon plasma
2000
BNL - RHIC  STAR  Warsaw University of Technology Measurement and identification of slow hadrons in heavy nuclei collisions
Study of a quark-gluon plasma
2001
DESY - HERA  HERMES  Institute for Nuclear Studies Study of nucleon spin origin 2001 
CERN - SPS NA-58 COMPASS Warsaw University, Institute for Nuclear Studies Study of nucleon spin origin 2001
LAS CAMPANAS
OBSERVATORY
PI OF THE SKY  Warszawa Study of optical flashes 2004 
MALARGUE PIERRE AUGER
OBSERVATORY
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Lodz University
Study of cosmic rays
at > 10EeV energies
2005
Future experiments
LNGS&n$ Borexino  Jagiellnian University  Study of solar neutrinos 2006
CERN - LNGS  ICARUS/ICANOE  Katowice, Krakow,
Warszawa, Wroclaw
 
Study of oscillation of neutrinos from CERN in LNGS 2006
CERN - LHC ATLAS AGH University of Science and Technology
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Search for a Higgs boson
Study of heavy quark decays and B mesons mixing
Search for supersymmetric particles
2007
CERN - LHC CMS Warsaw University, Institute for Nuclear Studies Search for a Higgs boson
Physics of t and b quarks and tau leptons
Search for supersymmetric particles
2007
CERN - LHC ALICE AGH University of Science and Technology
Institute of Nuclear Physics,
Institute for Nuclear Studies,
Warsaw University of Technology
Study of heavy nuclei collisions at extreme high energies
Study of a quark-gluon plasma
2007
CERN - LHC LHCb Institute for Nuclear Studies
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Study of CP violation in B decays 2007
CERN - LHC TOTEM Warsaw University of Technology -
Campus in Plock
Study of total, elastic and diffractive cross sections 2007
Compiled by RS, updated by ZA


Research is financed mainly from the state budget by:


Ministry of Science and Higher Education
National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA)

High energy physics in Poland: the first 50 years

Welcome in CERN (in Polish)

Polish pages of LHC (in Polish)

Seven years of Polish membership of CERN (in Polish)

50th Anniversary of CERN: Poland in CERN (in Polish)

Particle Adventure (in Polish)

Particle Physics in Poland '2005 (from ECFA Meeting 2005)

Discussion on future perspectives of particle physics in Europe


ZA - 2009