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Abstract

Rutherford and Hess experiment, in the first years of the XX century, mark the beginning of the experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics.

In the next one hundred years many, many discoveries were made, and we have now a much deeper understanding of the elementary constituents and of the fundamental interaction of the Universe. However, we know now at the beginning of the XXI century that most of the Universe (∼95%) is filled by mysterious entities, we have almost no idea about the dark matter and the dark matter energy.

The present and future experimental program of Particle and Astroparticle Physics is ambitious and we may hope for considerable progress in the years to come.

A short review of the participation of the LIP Portuguese teams in such program is briefly described.

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Pimenta, M. (2007). Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics. In: Pereira, M.S. (eds) A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5690-1_8

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