Facilities

We conduct research at LLNL facilities as well as a variety of collaborator facilities in the United States and around the world.

Accelerator facilities

LLNL’s accelerator facilities

LLNL Accelerator Complex

Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Research supported: nuclear astrophysics

NanoSIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry)
Research supported: nuclear astrophysics

Low- and medium- energy accelerator facilities

Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) and Californium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) at Argonne National Laboratory
Research supported: nuclear structure | precision beta decay | neutron spectroscopy

Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Research supported: nuclear fission

Cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research supported: nuclear reactions

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University
Research supported: nuclear structure | nuclear reactions

Cyclotron Institute at Texas A&M University
Research supported: nuclear reactions

TRIUMF
Research supported: nuclear structure

High-energy collider facilities

Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) at the Large Hadron Collider
Research supported: high-energy physics

ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider
Research supported: relativistic heavy-ion physics

sPHENIX and Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Research supported: relativistic heavy-ion physics

Non-accelerator facilities

nEXO
Research supported: neutrinoless double-beta decay