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Facilities
The few places on Earth (and one in orbit) where antimatter is produced, slowed down, stored or caught.
Operational6
- Antiproton Decelerator (AD) and Extra Low ENergy Antiproton ring (ELENA), CERN Antimatter FactoryCERN, AD Hall (Building 193), CERN Meyrin site, Meyrin, Geneva
- Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility, muon sectionJ-PARC Center (KEK and Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture
- Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02), International Space StationAMS Collaboration; hosted on the ISS by NASA; operated from CERN, Low Earth orbit aboard the ISS (operations from the AMS Payload Operations Control Centre, CERN Prévessin site)
- Slow Positron Facility, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)KEK Institute of Materials Structure Science (IMSS), Test Hall, Electron-Positron Injector Linac building, KEK Tsukuba Campus, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
- Intense Slow Positron Beam Facility, PULSTAR Reactor, North Carolina State UniversityNC State University Nuclear Reactor Program, Burlington Engineering Laboratories, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
- Large Hadron ColliderCERN, CERN, Geneva (France–Switzerland border)
Under construction2
- Facility for Antiproton and Ion ResearchFAIR GmbH with GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, GSI/FAIR campus, Darmstadt, Hesse
- NEutron induced POsitron source MUniCh at the FRM II research reactorTechnical University of Munich and Universität der Bundeswehr München, at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), FRM II research neutron source, Garching near Munich, Bavaria
Decommissioned3
- Low Energy Antiproton RingCERN, Proton Synchrotron South Hall (Building 150), CERN Meyrin site, Meyrin, Geneva
- Fermilab Antiproton Source (Target Station, Debuncher and Accumulator rings, with the Recycler)Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois (AP-0 target hall and Antiproton Source rings)
- Relativistic Heavy Ion ColliderBrookhaven National Laboratory (US DOE Office of Science user facility), Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York