List of accelerators in particle physics

A list of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed prior to the separation of particle physics from that field, are also included. Although a modern accelerator complex usually has several stages of accelerators, only accelerators whose output has been used directly for experiments are listed.

Early accelerators

These all used single beams with fixed targets. They tended to have very briefly run, inexpensive, and unnamed experiments.

Cyclotrons

 First accelerator built at the current Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory site, then known as the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory ("Rad Lab" for short)

Other early accelerator types

Synchrotrons

Fixed-target accelerators

More modern accelerators that were also run in fixed target mode; often, they will also have been run as colliders, or accelerated particles for use in subsequently built colliders.

| High Current Proton Accelerator| Neutron Materials Research, Proton Radiography, High Energy Neutron Research, Ultra Cold Neutrons| Los Alamos Neutron Science Center originally Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility| Los Alamos National Laboratory| 1972 - Present| Linear (800 meters) and Circular (30 m)| Protons| 800 MeV

Colliders

Electron-positron colliders

Hadron colliders

Electron-proton colliders

Ion colliders

Light sources

Hypothetical......

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