The Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de physique des particules (in English the Annecy-le-Vieux Particle Physics Laboratory), usually abbreviated as LAPP, is a French experimental physics laboratory located in
Annecy-le-Vieux
Annecy-le-Vieux () is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the commune Annecy.Haute-Savoie department of France. It is associated with both the French particle and nuclear physics institute
IN2P3
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, a subdivision of the
CNRS
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research council, and the Université de Savoie.
The research activity of LAPP is historically linked with
CERN
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, the European particle physics laboratory located near Geneva approximately 50 km from LAPP. However the laboratory has diversified beyond accelerator-based experiments into fields such as neutrino physics, gravitational wave detection space-based experiments.
Current experimental involvements include the
ATLAS
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LHC
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accelerator, the
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and
Virgo Interferometer
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experiments, the
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detector which will be attached to the
International Space Station
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experiment in 2011, as well as continuing involvement in the
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