Talk:Particle physics experiments

Accelerator / Experiment confused in this article

In the article, it appears that accelerators and PP experiments are all mixed up. Things like "storage ring", "linac", "decelerator" etc. refer to the machines that move the particles, and not necessarily to used for particle physics experiments. As an example of the distinction, please compare Large Hadron Collider with ATLAS experiment - these are completely different things.Erkcan (talk) 09:38, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. I will begin by reading the LHC article and the Atlas experiment article. It has been awhile since I did any research in Particle physics, and I am a bit rusty in this area, at the moment. When I was involved in reading and writing about it, I really enjoyed it very much. Steve Quinn (formerly Ti-30X) (talk) 14:36, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Scope of this article

The article looks like a wild mixture of a few experiments out of dozens without clear selection criteria (by alphabet, stop at "Be" and ignore everything after 2000?), a few accelerator components and some concepts used in particle physics. Uh, what? I suggest to convert it to a List of particle physics experiments, optionally merging some content to particle physics or other articles if suitable. --mfb (talk) 23:52, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Okay, checked the article in detail. I suggest to remove all sections apart from "Absorber", and move this page to Absorber. Section by section:

• "AEGIS (particle physics)": Exact copy from Antiproton_Decelerator#ATRAP
• "Athena": Better described in Antiproton_Decelerator#ATHENA
• "ARGUS (experiment)": The sentences are all in ARGUS (experiment) and ARGUS distribution, just in a different order.
• "ATRAP": Exact copy from Antiproton_Decelerator#ATRAP
• "Belle experiment": It is an exact copy from the dedicated article.
• "ASTRID" and "ASTRID 2": They are better described in ASTRID - that article is outdated, but not as much as the text here.
• "Anti-proton decelerator": The dedicated article is better.
• "Accelerator physics": The first sentence is equivalent to the first sentence in the article and the other paragraph is an exact copy from the article.
• "Event reconstruction": It is an exact copy from the dedicated article.

According to the version history, all sections here are the copies of the other articles, so there is no copyright issue.

• The content in section "Absorber" seems to be unique. We can move the article to Absorber and reduce it to the content there.
• 45 articles link to this page, the links can be redirected to Particle physics, to individual detector articles or other suitable articles or links can be removed. Remember that we don't lose any content, so links shouldn't be an issue. --mfb (talk) 20:17, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

I support either converting this to List of particle physics experiments or deleting it if it can't offer any more than Category:particle experiments already does. Dukwon (talk) 19:37, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Replaced all links to this page, restored old Absorber version (this article still had the 2009 version without any changes) and updated it a bit, removed the article here and let it point to Particle physics. Done. Independently, a List of particle physics experiments article can be created if someone wants to, this article was not a good template for that anyway. --mfb (talk) 00:10, 23 December 2016 (UTC)