Research Facilities
International facilities used by Manchester research physicists include:
Astronomy & 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 Pulsed Neutron & Muon Source, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, UK
- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France
- UK high performance computing facilities, Manchester, UK
- HPCx facilities, Manchester & Daresbury, UK
- Neutron scattering and diffraction facilities, Orsay, France
Condensed Matter
- FRJ-2 reactor, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
- ISIS Pulsed Neutron & Muon Source , Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, UK
- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France
Nonlinear and Liquid Crystal Physics
- Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS), Daresbury, UK
- The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France
- National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Brookhaven, USA
- Diamond Light Source, UK
Nuclear Physics
- Accelerator Laboratory, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, USA
- Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL), Yale, USA
- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), Michigan, USA
- Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL), Italy
- Isolde Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (CERN), Geneva, Swizerland
- High Flux Reactor, Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France
- Joint European Torus (JET), UKAEA Culham, UK
- MAST - the Spherical Tokamak, UKAEA Culham, UK
Particle Physics
- CERN in Geneva, Switzerland
- DESY in Hamburg, Germany
- The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, USA
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Chicago, USA
Photon Physics
- Elettra Synchrotron Light Source(ELETTRA), Trieste, Italy
- The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France
- MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
- SOLEIL, Paris, France
- Science & Technology Facilities Council various locations, UK
- Advanced Light Source (ALS), Berkeley, USA
Much of the analysis of data from these facilities takes place in Manchester.