Tag: Countries
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Sweden
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER The Swedish particle physics research activities are centered at universities, with groups working on e.g. the ALICE, ATLAS, and LDMX experiments, as well as astroparticle experiments like XENON, IceCube, Hyper-Kamiokande, as well as substantial activities in theory and phenomenology research. Many groups are very involved in outreach activities with PhD…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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Brazil
JOINED: 2016 CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER LOCAL RESOURCES WEBSITE: IPPOG-Brasil Brazil is represented in IPPOG by the National Network of High Energy Physics (Rede Nacional de Física de Altas Energias, RENAFAE, in Portuguese), officially created by the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology to coordinate the national effort in High Energy Physics. The country has a…