International facilities
International facilities used by Manchester research physicists include:
Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Hubble Space Telescope
The European VLBI Network
The Australia Telescope in New South Wales, Australia
The Effelsberg Radio Telescope near Bonn, Germany
The XMM-Newton X-ray telescope
The European Southern Observatory at Paranal and La Silla, Chile
The Anglo-Australian Observatory in New South Wales, Australia
The William Herschel Telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Hawaii
The MERLIN/VLBI National Facility
The Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array in Socorro, New Mexico, USA
The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii
The Green bank Telescope in West Virginia
The Gemini Telescopes in Chile and Hawaii
The Spitzer Space Telescope
Biological Physics
ISIS Neutron Facility at RAL
Diamond Light Source at RALhttp://www.diamond.ac.uk/default.htm
ILL Neutron Facility at Grenoble http://www.ill.fr/
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility at Grenoblehttp://www.esrf.eu/
NIST Center for Neutron Scattering at Gaithersburg, MD, USAhttp://www.ncnr.nist.gov/
Berlin Neutron Scattering Center (BENSC)http://www.hmi.de/bensc/index_en.html
Nonlinear and Condensed Matter
APS at Argonne near Chicago, USA
NSLS at Brookhaven, Long Island, New York
ESRF at Grenoble, France
ILL at Grenoble, France
ISIS at Rutherford Lab, UK
SRS at Daresbury, UK
Nuclear Physics
The 88-Inch Cyclotron at the Lawrence-Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California
The K-130 Cyclotron at Jyväskylä University, Finland
The ATLAS accelerator system at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago
The SPIRAL radioactive beams facility at GANIL in Caen, France
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH, Darmstadt, Germany
Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, near Padova, Italy
High Energy Particle Physics
CERN in Geneva, Switzerland
DESY in Hamburg, Germany
The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California, USA
Fermilab near Chicago, USA
Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane
Much of the analysis of data from these facilities takes place in Manchester.