Facilities
Our facilities rival those of leading Departments across the world, and include the unique and historic Jodrell Bank Observatory.
We have access to equipment across various centres and institutes, and our physicists take part in major international research collaborations using the facilities listed below:
International collaborations
Astronomy and astrophysics:
- Hubble Space Telescope
- European VLBI Network
- Australia Telescope
- Effelsberg Radio Telescope
- XMM-Newton X-ray Telescope
- European Southern Observatory
- Anglo-Australian Observatory
- William Herschel Telescope
- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
- Very Large Array and Very Long Baseline Array
- United Kingdom Infrared Telescope
- Green Bank Telescope
- Spitzer Space Telescope
Biological physics:
- ISIS Neutron Facility
- Diamond Light Source
- ILL Neutron Facility
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
- NIST Centre for Neutron Scattering
- Berlin Neutron Scattering Center
Nonlinear and condensed matter:
- Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS)
- ESRF
- ALICE and EMMA at Daresbury
Nuclear physics:
- 88-inch Cyclotron at the Lawrence-Berkeley Laboratory
- K-130 Cyclotron at Jyväskylä University
- ATLAS accelerator system at Argonne National Laboratory
- SPIRAL radioactive beams facility at GANIL
- Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH
- Legnaro National Laboratories
High energy particle physics:
The outstanding facilities available to staff, students and researchers in the Department enable us to continue the pioneering work for which we are known.
Our research in the following areas uses a range of facilities:
Condensed matter, atomic and biological physics facilities
Manchester facilities:
- Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology
- Photon Science Institute
- Rotating cryostats
External facilities:
- High Field Magnet Laboratory, Radbout University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Laboratoire National des Champs Magnetiques Intenses, Grenoble, France
- MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
- SOLEIL, Orsay, France
- ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy
- Diamond Light Source, UK
- Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK
