Research Facilities

The Metcalf Science Center and the Physics Research Building are equipped with laboratories in atomic, nuclear, low temperature, high energy, surface and biological physics, as well as Laser Raman spectroscopy. Major condensed matter physics and biological physics research laboratories are also located in the Photonics Center.

Research is aided by a precision instrumentation shop, an Electronics Design Facility and a Computer Research Facility, all of which may be used by graduate students. Research is also carried out at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CERN, National Synchrotron Light Source, the Advanced Light Source, Super Kamiokande (Japan) and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.

An extensive network of computational facilities supports the research activities of the department. There are networked multiprocessor DELL and SGI servers and centralized Sun workstations available to departmental faculty, staff and students. Additional Unix and Linux servers and workstations, as well as many Windows PCs, are available to research groups.

For computationally intensive applications, students have access to supercomputing resources supported through the Center for Computational Science and the Office of Information Technology. In addition, the Departmental Computer Facility supports a wide range of software applications for physics data collection, analysis, simulation and visualization.

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