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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland is opening new vistas on the deepest secrets of the universe, stretching the imagination with newly discovered forms of matter, forces of nature, and dimensions of space. This site provides general information about the Large Hadron Collider and detailed information about American participation in the LHC accelerator and experiments. U.S. LHC participation is supported by the US Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.

A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment producing two high-energy photons (red towers). This is what we would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs boson but it is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes. (Courtesy: CERN)

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US Institutions Participating in LHC Experiments and Accelerator

Approximately 1,700 scientists, students and technicians from 97 US institutions participate in the LHC. These institutions include universities and national laboratories from 32 states and Puerto Rico.

Click on a state to view a list of participating institutions in that state, or view a list of institutions sorted by name or by LHC project.

Information about institutions marked by is available on this site.

U.S. State	Institution	Project(s)
Arizona	University of Arizona	ATLAS
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California	California Institute of Technology	CMS, WLCG
	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	ALICE
	California State University, Fresno	ATLAS
	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ALICE, ATLAS, LHC
	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	ALICE, CMS
	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	ATLAS, LHC, WLCG
	University of California, Davis	CMS
	University of California, Irvine	ATLAS
	University of California, Los Angeles	CMS
	University of California, Riverside	CMS
	University of California, San Diego	CMS, WLCG
	University of California, Santa Barbara	CMS
	University of California, Santa Cruz	ATLAS
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Colorado	University of Colorado	CMS
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Connecticut	Fairfield University	CMS
	Yale University	ALICE, ATLAS
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Florida	Florida Institute of Technology	CMS
	Florida International University	CMS
	Florida State University	CMS
	University of Florida	CM, WLCG
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Illinois	Argonne National Laboratory	ATLAS
	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	CMS, LHC, WLCG
	Northern Illinois University	ATLAS
	Northwestern University	CMS
	University of Chicago	ATLAS, WLCG
	University of Illinois at Chicago	CMS
	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	ATLAS
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Indiana	Indiana University	ATLAS, WLCG
	Purdue University	ALICE, CMS, WLCG
	Purdue University Calumet	CMS
	University of Notre Dame	CMS
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Iowa	Iowa State University	ATLAS
	University of Iowa	ATLAS, CMS
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Kansas	Kansas State University	CMS
	University of Kansas	CMS
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Kentucky	University of Louisville	ATLAS
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Louisiana	Louisiana Tech University	ATLAS
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Maryland	Johns Hopkins University	CMS
	University of Maryland	CMS
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Massachusetts	Boston University	ATLAS, CMS, WLCG
	Brandeis University	ATLAS
	Harvard University	ATLAS, WLCG
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	ATLAS, CMS, WLCG
	Northeastern University	CMS
	Tufts University	ATLAS
	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	ATLAS
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Michigan	Michigan State University	ATLAS, WLCG
	University of Michigan	ATLAS, WLCG
	Wayne State University	ALICE, CMS
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Minnesota	University of Minnesota	CMS
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Mississippi	University of Mississippi	CMS
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Nebraska	Creighton University	ALICE
	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	CMS, WLCG
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New Jersey	Princeton University	CMS
	Rutgers University	CMS
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New Mexico	University of New Mexico	ATLAS, WLCG
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New York	Brookhaven National Laboratory	ATLAS, LHC, WLCG
	Columbia University	ATLAS
	Cornell University	CMS
	New York University	ATLAS
	Rockefeller University	CMS
	State University of New York at Albany	ATLAS
	State University of New York at Buffalo	CMS
	State University of New York at Stony Brook	ATLAS
	Syracuse University	LHCb
	University of Rochester	CMS
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North Carolina	Duke University	ATLAS
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Ohio	Case Western Reserve University	TOTEM
	Ohio State University	ALICE, ATLAS, CMS
	Ohio Supercomputer Center	ALICE
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Oklahoma	Langston University	WLCG
	Oklahoma State University	ATLAS
	University of Oklahoma	ATLAS, WLCG
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Oregon	University of Oregon	ATLAS
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Pennsylvania	Carnegie Mellon University	CMS
	University of Pennsylvania	ATLAS
	University of Pittsburgh	ATLAS
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Puerto Rico	University of Puerto Rico	CMS
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Rhode Island	Brown University	CMS
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South Carolina	University of South Carolina	ATLAS
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Tennessee	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ALICE
	University of Tennessee	ALICE, CMS
	Vanderbilt University	CMS
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Texas	Baylor University	CMS
	Rice University	CMS
	Southern Methodist University	ATLAS
	Texas A&M University	CMS
	Texas Tech University	CMS
	University of Houston	ALICE
	University of Texas, Arlington	ATLAS, WLCG
	University of Texas, Austin	LHC
	University of Texas, Dallas	ATLAS
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Virginia	Hampton University	ATLAS
	University of Virginia	CMS
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Washington	University of Washington	ATLAS
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Wisconsin	University of Wisconsin-Madison	ATLAS, CMS, WLCG
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