H1 logo

The H1-Experiment at HERA
Detector Information

H1 Back to the H1-Homepage

H1 is a collaboration of about 400 scientists from 39 institutes of 12 countries throughout the world. The collaboration has built and operates the H1 detector, one of the two big experiments taking data with colliding positron-proton beams at HERA . (The other collider experiment ist the ZEUS detector , there are two more experiments, HERMES and HERA-B, taking data in the fixed target mode).
HERA is one of the facilities at the German national laboratory for elementary particle physics DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) in Hamburg.

A Visit to H1

Exists in four languages:
Click to your preferred version:
deutsch, english or français or slovak

This information is extracted from our printed leaflet which can be obtained from H1 (also exists in three languages).

For a more detailed information refer to our paper describing the H1 detector ( DESY Internal report H1 96-01 (March 1996), published in Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A386, 1997 (in 2 parts pages:) 310-347 and 348-396. )


Collection of Pictures of H1 detector:


Last updated 17.4.1997 by JB