This is a list of scattering experiments. Specific experiments of historical significance 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 Physics-related lists Physics experiments Chemistry-related lists Biology-related lists