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Gaining knowledge on the structure of matter and the fundamental interrelations in nature is among the decisive elements of scientific basic research that is focused on physical studies for which use of expensive large-scale equipment is indispensable: astrophysicists overcome dimensions of space and time in outer space by means of large-scale telescopes, and particle physicists study the smallest elements of matter in large-scale accelerator facilities.

The current areas of research at large-scale facilities are:

• Astrophysics
• Astroparticle physics
• Hadron and nuclear physics
• Structure and interaction of fundamental particles
• Physics of condensed matter