The U.S. LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP) coordinates
research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existi ...
in the United States related to the
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundred ...
at
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gene ...
. Among other things, the program has contributed important instrumentation for initial LHC operation and is leading the way for the development of
superconducting magnets based on
Niobium-tin, which are proposed for
future LHC upgrades.
LARP was first proposed in 2003 as a collaboration between the
Brookhaven National Laboratory, the
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States Department of Energy National Labs, United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, t ...
. The
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory joined the program shortly thereafter.
LARP is funded through the
US Department of Energy. The total funding in Fiscal Year 2010 was $12.39M, distributed among the four labs involved.
References
External links
LARP website
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Large Hadron Collider
Particle accelerators
Research projects