List of scattering experiments From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of scattering experiments. See also: List of accelerators in particle physics Davisson–Germer experiment Gold foil experiments, performed by Geiger and Marsden for Rutherford which discovered the atomic nucleus Elucidation of the structure of DNA by X-ray crystallography Discovery of the antiproton at the Bevatron Discovery of W and Z bosons at CERN Discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider MINERνA Types of experiment Optical methods Compton scattering Raman scattering X-ray crystallography Biological small-angle scattering with X-rays, or Small-angle X-ray scattering Static light scattering Dynamic light scattering Polymer scattering with X-rays Neutron-based methods Neutron scattering Biological small-angle scattering with neutrons, or Small-angle neutron scattering Polymer scattering with neutrons Particle accelerators Electrostatic nuclear accelerator Linear induction accelerator Betatron Linear particle accelerator Cyclotron Synchrotron Related Articles