Tag: Members
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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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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…