ARGUS (experiment)

ARGUS (A Russian-German-United States-Swedish Collaboration; later joined by Canada and the former Yugoslavia) was a particle physics experiment that ran at the electron–positron collider ring DORIS II at the German national laboratory DESY.

Its aim was to explore properties of charm and bottom quarks.

Its construction started in 1979, the detector was commissioned in 1982 and operated until 1992.

[4] The ARGUS distribution is named after the experiment.

In 2010, the former site of ARGUS at DORIS became the location of the OLYMPUS experiment.

The metal red chassis of the ARGUS detector exposed in a dedicated glass hall
The ARGUS detector at DESY research facility, exposed as an exhibit after decommissioning.
Close-up view of the ARGUS detector
Detailed image of the ARGUS detector.