Tag: CERN
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Czech Republic
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER Particle physicists in Czech Republic are curious and keen on discovering of all beauties and secrets of the microworld – pretty much like their colleagues all over the macroworld. There are teams of tens Czech physicists on ATLAS and ALICE experiments at CERN, studying collisions of protons and heavy ions.…
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CMS Collaboration
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:CMS resources website The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment is one of the two large, general-purpose particle physics detectors at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) . It’s a major international scientific collaboration, involving over 6000 particle physicists, engineers, and technicians from across the globe . The CMS Collaboration…
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CERN
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE(S):CERN Public websiteCERN Educational Resources CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s leading laboratories for particle physics. The Organization is located on the French-Swiss border, with its headquarters in Geneva. At CERN, physicists and engineers probe the fundamental structure of the universe, by…
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Bulgaria
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER Sofia Tech Park develops activities to support start-ups, small and medium enterprises, science, education and innovation. There are few main components included in the park: Incubator – The incubator community includes start-ups and developed companies, investment funds and educational organizations.Forum – A venue for events in the field of science,…
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Belle II Collaboration
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE(S):KEK outreach websiteBelle II The Belle II experiment is a particle physics experiment designed to study the properties of B mesons (heavy particles containing a beauty quark) and other particles. The Belle II spectrometer, located on the interaction point of the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider, Tsukuba, Japan, started data…
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Austria
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER Representative Natascha Hoermann Natascha started her education at a higher technical school for computer science and continued with physics at the Vienna University of Technology. Since 2007, she is working at the Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) in Vienna. Her research field is physics analysis at the CMS experiment…
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Impact of science on society and sustainable development showcased by particle physics and CERN
This presentation provides an overview of the broad positive impact of science on society and sustainable development, using CERN as a main example. As scientific community faces threatened funding of large experimental endeavors and low interest of young generation to engage in studies of physics and related sciences (refered to as “STEM (science, technology, engineering…
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Introducing the LHC in the classroom: an overview of education resources available
In the context of the recent re-start of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the challenge presented by unidentified falling objects (UFOs), we seek to facilitate the introduction of high energy physics in the classroom. Therefore, this paper provides an overview of the LHC and its operation, highlighting existing education resources, and linking principal components…
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ATLAS Collaboration
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:ATLAS resources website ATLAS is a general-purpose particle-physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It is run by an international collaboration with about 5000 members from 180 institutions in 40 countries worldwide. It has been designed to exploit the full discovery potential and the huge…
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ALICE Collaboration
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE:ALICE resources website ALICE is a heavy-ion experiment, designed to study the collisions of nuclei at the ultra-relativistic energies provided by the LHC. The aim is to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at the highest energy densities reached so far in the laboratory. In such conditions,…