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Tour Information

Schedule a tour of The Wilson Lab Facility at Cornell University!

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A visiting high school class receives a guided tour of the CESR tunnel.

Tours of LEPP are available to groups ranging from elementary school children to physicists visiting from other research sites.

Please note that the majority of tours are conducted on Tuesdays, from 8am to 12pm. Also note that although tours are free, you are requested to arrange for your own parking. For more information about parking at Cornell, please view this map.

  • Tours for the General Public: Call the Wilson Lab office at (607) 255-4882
  • Tours for K-12 Groups: Contact Lora Hine at (607) 255-2319 or lkh24@cornell.edu
  • For information about how to reach us at LEPP, visit the General Information page.

  • If you are unable to visit the Cornell campus, you can learn more about the Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics by watching the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory video and taking an on-line virtual tour of the facilities. For this information and more, please visit From Quarks to the Cosmos: A Virtual Tour of LEPP.

Additional Tour Resources

Introduction to Science of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring

CLEO and CESR

Cross-sectional view of the CLEO particle detector. (left)
View of accelerator tunnel with CESR and the Synchrotron. (right)

Tour Guide Information

Tour Guide Orientation and CESR/CLEO Mini-Course - December 11/12, 2006

This 2-day workshop covers principal topics in accelerator and detector physics. The lectures are targetted at a reasonably high level and are appropriate for physics graduate students/laboratory staff who are interested in understanding how this sophisticated instrumentation works.