IFAE
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The Institute for High Energy Physics (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies, IFAE) of Barcelona
, Spain
, is a Public Consortium between the
Generalitat de Catalunya
(Government of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia
) and the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). It was formally created on July 16, 1991,
by Act number 159/1991 of the Generalitat. As an organization it is independent from both the
UAB and the Generalitat, ruled by its own Statutes, and governed by a Governing Board.
It is located on the campus of UAB in Bellaterra, Barcelona.
The IFAE has its own Titular Personnel as well as Associated Personnel consisting on members
of the Physics Department of UAB working on Particle Physics. It has also an agreement with
Universitat de Barcelona (dated 8/7/1992) which also allows the faculty of that university
working on Particle Physics to be Associated Personnel of IFAE.
The IFAE is also adscribed to the UAB as a University Institute (Act number 231/1995 of the
Generalitat) which allows its members to teach in its Doctoral Programme in Physics, and thus
benefits from a productive symbiotic relationship with this major education and research institution.
The institute is dedicated to forefront experimental and theoretical research in the fields of
high energy physics and high energy astrophysics as well as in related technologies.
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Spain
Spain
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, is a Public Consortium between the
Generalitat de Catalunya
Generalitat de Catalunya
The Generalitat of Catalonia is the institution under which the autonomous community of Catalonia is politically organised. It consists of the Parliament, the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Government of Catalonia....
(Government of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
) and the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). It was formally created on July 16, 1991,
by Act number 159/1991 of the Generalitat. As an organization it is independent from both the
UAB and the Generalitat, ruled by its own Statutes, and governed by a Governing Board.
It is located on the campus of UAB in Bellaterra, Barcelona.
The IFAE has its own Titular Personnel as well as Associated Personnel consisting on members
of the Physics Department of UAB working on Particle Physics. It has also an agreement with
Universitat de Barcelona (dated 8/7/1992) which also allows the faculty of that university
working on Particle Physics to be Associated Personnel of IFAE.
The IFAE is also adscribed to the UAB as a University Institute (Act number 231/1995 of the
Generalitat) which allows its members to teach in its Doctoral Programme in Physics, and thus
benefits from a productive symbiotic relationship with this major education and research institution.
The institute is dedicated to forefront experimental and theoretical research in the fields of
high energy physics and high energy astrophysics as well as in related technologies.
Current projects
- Detector construction, algorithm development and Monte Carlo simulation for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron ColliderLarge Hadron ColliderThe Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature....
(LHC) under construction at the CERNCERNThe European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
; - Experiment design and construction of the MAGICMAGIC (telescope)MAGIC is a system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes situated at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, one of the Canary Islands, at about 2200 m above sea level...
high energy gamma-ray telescope, under operation since 2004 in the Canary IslandsCanary IslandsThe Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
, Spain; - Design of the Cherenkov Telescope ArrayCherenkov Telescope ArrayThe Cherenkov Telescope Array or CTA is a project to build a new generation ground-based gamma-ray instrument in the energy range extending from some tens of GeV to above 100 TeV...
, a matrix of Cherenkov TelescopesIACTThe IACT or Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique is the method whereby very high energy gamma-ray photons in the 50 GeV to 50 TeV range can be detected by ground based telescopes. There are currently four major ground based telescopes including CANGAROO III, MAGIC, HESS and VERITAS...
ten times more sensitive than MAGIC. - Development of a novel X-ray detector technique for use in medical imaging;
- Analysis of data from the K2K experimentK2K experimentThe K2K experiment was a neutrino experiment that ran from June 1999 to November 2004. It used muon neutrinos from a well-controlled and well-understood beam to verify the oscillations previously observed by Super-Kamiokande using atmospheric neutrinos...
in JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, preparation for the next generation neutrino experiment JHF-nu T2K experiment and development of the SciBooNEScibooneSciBar Booster Neutrino Experiment , is a neutrino experiment located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the USA....
experiment. - Development of an Information Data Grid in connection with the LHC computing;
- A number of projects in theoretical Particle Physics.