Category: Members
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Spain
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:CPAN outreach webpage The Spanish particle physics community invests a sizable effort in science outreach and promotion. Most research institutions and universities in this field carry out numerous activities, both at local level and national level. The coordination of national activities is a responsibility of the National Center…
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South Africa
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER NRF-iThemba LABS (Laboratory for Accelerator Based Science) At the tip of Africa lies the largest particle accelerator facility in the Southern Hemisphere and the only cyclotron facility of its kind on the African continent. iThemba Laboratories for Accelerator Based Science (LABS), a research facility of the National Research Foundation (NRF),…
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Slovenia
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER Slovenia has been involved with various big particle physics projects almost as long as it has been a country. Indeed, the first collaboration agreement between CERN and Slovenia dates back to the same year (1991). However, Slovenian physicists were already involved with various particle physics experiments before that time. Nowadays,…
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Slovakia
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:Svet Castic Research in high energy physics is carried out mainly at four institutes in Bratislava and Košice, and focuses on the ATLAS and ALICE experiments at the LHC. Research groups from Bratislava, active in nuclear structure studies, perform their experiments at ISOLDE facility at CERN. Smaller groups…
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Romania
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER The particle physics community in Romania is centred around CERN collaborations, carried out by physics institutes and major universities in the country (mainly: Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara). The promotion of physics, of exact sciences and communication with society are important missions of these entities. “Particle Physics Masterclasses” is the most…
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Portugal
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:LIP Outreach Webpage Particle physics outreach in Portugal is mainly pursued by LIP, the Laboratory for Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics. LIP is a nation-wide research institute with 3 nodes associated with the universities of Lisbon, Coimbra and Minho, and connections to other universities. It covers areas of…
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Poland
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER In Poland the particle physics research is concentrated in two biggest cities, Warszawa and Krakow, but there are also smaller groups in Kielce, Lodz and Wroclaw. The leading institutions are: AGH University of Science and Technology and Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (Krakow), National Centre for Nuclear…
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Norway
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER Representative Farid Ould-Saada At 13 Farid decided to become a physicist and opted for particle physics when he started university in Algeria. After his PhD from Saclay, France, he took part in several experiments (e+e-, ep, pN, ppbar, pp, nu-e) at DESY, CERN and the Bugey nuclear reactor. Farid lectures…
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The Netherlands
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER In the Netherlands, (astro)particle physics is coordinated by Nikhef, which is a collaborations between the NWO-I institute for subatomic physics and six universities. Within Nikhef, ~75 technicians and engineers, ~185 physicists and ~25 support staff work together which enables the institute to engage in the design and building of detectors,…
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Montenegro
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER In Montenegro, high energy physics takes place at University of Montenegro. University of Montenegro has been a full member of several international scientific collaborations in particle physics: H1 collaboration at DESY institute in Hamburg, CMS collaboration at CERN in Geneva as well as RD50 collaboration at CERN. Scientists from University…