Tag: CERN
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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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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…
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LHCb Collaboration
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:LHCb resources website The LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment at CERN, located at Point 8 of the LHC near Geneva, focuses on studying b-quarks to understand the differences between matter and antimatter. It started operating in 2010 and investigates CP violation and rare particle decays, providing insights…
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Ireland
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER In Ireland, promoting curiosity, creativity and critical thinking through fundamental physics is an important part of our scientific and educational mission. The Irish particle physics and cosmology community is actively engaged in introducing students, teachers and the wider public to the wonders of the Universe – from the smallest building…
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Hungary
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:ATOMKI resources Representative Balazs Ujvari Balázs Ujvári earned a PhD in Physics from the University of Debrecen and has been involved with prestigious international collaborations like CERN and BNL (Brookhaven National Laboratory). His work primarily focuses on high-energy particle collisions, detector simulation, and data analysis, such as aligning…
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HAWC Collaboration
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:Cronicas del Dr. M. Buhardilla HAWC is located on the flanks of the Sierra Negra volcano near Puebla, Mexico at an altitude of 4100 meters (13,500 feet). The observatory is made up of 300 tanks filled with ultra-purified water that, through the cherenkov effect, can detect the arrival…
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Greece
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:NTUA outreach webpage Greece has a long tradition in HEP since it has been one of the founding members of CERN. HEP research is carried out in Athens (both in the National and Kapodistrian as well as in the National Technical University), Aegean, Crete, Ioannina, Thessaloniki and in…
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Germany
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:Netzwerk Teilchenwelt Germany has a very large community in basic research on particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics, with more than 2000 people attending the regular common national conferences. The diversity of the physics program in these fields is also reflected in the scales of the involved experiments…
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France
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:CNRS/IN2P3 Outreach and Communication Page In France, introducing young people and the general public to basic science (nuclear physics, physics of elementary particles, cosmology and astrophysics), the technological advances they require and their related applications (energy, health, etc.), is a key mission for the 25 CNRS/IN2P3 national research…
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Finland
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER The Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) is a physics research institute that is operated jointly by the University of Helsinki, Aalto University, the University of Jyväskylä, the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, and the Tampere University. The research activity at the institute covers an extensive range of subjects in theoretical physics…