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Poland
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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 Research (Warszawa and Lodz), University of Warsaw and Warsaw University of Technology (Warszawa).
Polish physicists take part in many different experiments. At CERN they are among members of all large experiments at LHC: ALICE, ATLAS and LHCb (Krakow) ALICE and CMS (Warszawa), but also in NA61/SHINE. Similar studies are also performed at lower collisions energies available from smaller accelerator for STAR experiment (in USA) and Belle II experiment (in Japan). Other groups work in neutrino experiments in Japan (T2K, Super Kamiokande), USA (Minos) and Russia (Baikal GVD). There is also extensive involvement in cosmic-ray studies in observatories on the ground (Auger, HESS, HAWC, CTA and CREDO) or in satellites in the space.
All universities and research institutes organize outreach activities. Physicists from Krakow, Lodz, Poznan and Warszawa are involved in the International Masterclasses for high school students. Each year over 500 of them can listen to lectures and perform the measurements using the data from LHC experiments. They also take part in public events like Scientific Picnic in Warszawa or Researchers Night in Krakow.
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Fizyka cząstek elementarnych jest rozwijana w Polsce głównie w dwu największych miastach: w Warszawie i w Krakowie, ale są mniejsze grupy w Kielcach, Łodzi i Wrocławiu. Wiodącymi instytucjami są: Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza i Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej PAN (w Krakowie) Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych (w Warszawie i Łodzi) oraz Uniwersytet Warszawski i Politechnika Warszawska.
Polscy fizycy biorą udział w wielu różnorodnych eksperymentach. W CERN są wśród członków wszystkich większych eksperymentów działających przy Wielkim Zderzaczu Hadronów (LHC): ALICE, ATLAS i LHCb (Kraków) ALICE i CMS (Warszawa), ale także innych, np. eksperymentu NA61/SHINE. Prowadzą również badania przy niższych energiach zderzeń w eksperymencie STAR (w USA) i Belle II (w Japonii). Inne grupy pracują w eksperymentach neutrinowych w Japonii (T2K, Super Kamiokande), w USA (Minos) i w Rosji (Baikal GVD). Bardzo istotny wkład wnoszą w badania promieniowania kosmicznego obserwatoriach na ziemi (Auger, HESS, HAWC, CTA i CREDO) oraz wykorzystując satelity.
Wszystkie uczelnie i instytuty badawcze prowadzą działalność popularyzatorską. Fizycy z Krakowa, łodzi, Poznania i Warszawy prowadzą warsztaty dla uczniów szkół średnich w ramach International Masterclasses. Każdego roku ponad 500 uczniów może wysłuchać wykładów o fizyce cząstek elementarnych i dokonać pomiarów korzystając z danych dostarczonych przez eksperymenty LHC. Organizowane są też wydarzenia dla szerszej publiczności takie jak coroczny Piknik Naukowy w Warszawie czy Noc Naukowców w Krakowie
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Krzysztof Wozniak
High energy particle physics has been an important repeating theme in Krzysztof’s scientific path. Krzysztof’s PhD thesis was based on the data collected from measurements in the nuclear emulsion - a technique known already since before 1940, but which nowadays is still used in neutrino experiments. Later he started to work in experiments with detectors full of electronic devices that would process data with computers. Here he was able to fully apply his skills gained during computer science studies, and his interest in HEP experiments continued to grow.
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Norway
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Farid Ould-Saada
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LHCb Collaboration
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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 into why the universe is dominated by matter. LHCb has made significant discoveries, including exotic particles like tetraquarks and pentaquarks, and has observed CP violation in baryons. Its findings test the Standard Model and explore potential new physics.
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L'expérience LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) au CERN, située au Point 8 du LHC près de Genève, se concentre sur l'étude des quarks b afin de comprendre les différences entre la matière et l'antimatière. Elle a commencé à fonctionner en 2010 et examine la violation de CP ainsi que les désintégrations rares de particules, fournissant des informations sur la prédominance de la matière dans l'univers. LHCb a réalisé des découvertes importantes, notamment des particules exotiques comme les tétraquarks et les pentaquarks, et a observé la violation de CP dans les baryons. Ses résultats testent le Modèle Standard et explorent de nouvelles physiques potentielles.
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Federico Leo Redi
FLR is a physicist and member of the LHCb collaboration. Aside from his academic interests, he has been deeply involved in public science outreach since the beginning of his PhD in 2015. Among other things, he has led the LHCb Masterclass program at CERN, co-convened many outreach activities at international conferences, and is a founding convenor of the LHCb Outreach Working Group.
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Israel
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Ehud Duchovni
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HAWC Collaboration
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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 of charged particles. It has an instantaneous field of view covering 15% of the sky, and during each 24 hour period HAWC observes two-thirds of the sky. Using the HAWC Observatory, we are performing a high-sensitivity survey of the gamma rays from the Northern Hemisphere.HAWC is a facility designed to observe gamma rays and cosmic rays between 100 GeV and 100 TeV. TeV gamma rays are the highest energy photons ever observed — 1 TeV is 1 trillion electron volts (eV), about 1 trillion times more energetic than visible light! These photons are born in the most extreme environments in the known universe: supernova explosions, active galactic nuclei, and gamma-ray bursts.
Cosmic rays are charged particles which achieve energies far beyond what we can create in man-made particle accelerators. (The highest energy cosmic ray ever observed was 300 million TeV.) The origin of such particles has been a mystery for over 100 years. Gamma rays are though to be correlated with the acceleration sites of charged cosmic rays, so we observe them to help answer this and other cosmic questions
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El observatorio a gran altura de agua Cherenkov, o HAWC por sus siglas en inglés, es un laboratorio diseñado para detectar rayos gamma y rayos cósmicos con energías de TeV.
HAWC está construido en una de las laderas del volcán Sierra Negra, cerca de Puebla, México. Se encuentra a una altura de aproximadamente 4100 metros sobre el nivel del mar. HAWC es usado para realizar un estudio general del cielo en las energías entre 100 GeV y 100 TeV.
El observatorio esta formado por 300 tanques llenos de agua ultrpurificada que mediante el efecto cherenkov pueden detectar la llegada de partículas cargas logrando una apertura que cubre más del 15% del cielo. Con su amplio campo de visión, el observatorio está expuesto a dos terceras partes del cielo durante cada ciclo de 24 horas.
Los rayos gamma con energías de TeV son indicadores de los fenómenos más violentos en el universo conocido: explosiones de supernovas, núcleos activos de galaxias, y destellos de rayos gamma. Se piensa que los rayos gamma están correlacionados con los lugares de aceleración de los rayos cósmicos con carga, cuyos orígenes han sido un misterio por ya más de 100 años.
Los rayos gamma con energías de TeV son indicadores de los fenómenos más violentos en el universo conocido: explosiones de supernovas, núcleos activos de galaxias, y destellos de rayos gamma. Se piensa que los rayos gamma están correlacionados con los lugares de aceleración de los rayos cósmicos con carga, cuyos orígenes han sido un misterio por ya más de 100 años
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Jose Ruben Alfaro Molina
Ruben studied physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He obtained his Ph.D. from the same University on low energy elastic scattering collisions. After two-year of postdoctoral experience at the IUCF Indiana University, he joined the Physics Instituto at UNAM working on detector development, in particular for imaging The Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan Archeological Site and the Vertex Zero (V0) detector for ALICE. Since 2007 he is a member of the HAWC collaboration.
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France
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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 laboratories and platforms, and the CEA/IRFU. Our educational and outreach activities are carried out in close collaboration to teaching staff and take many forms: visit to laboratories, “Masterclass” discovery days, teacher-training courses, loans of cosmic-ray detectors for use in classrooms, teaching aids, exhibitions, websites, virtual visits, audiovisual productions, books, etc.
Our goal: to give people a taste for science and physics
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En France, la diffusion vers les jeunes (élèves ou étudiants) et le grand public de branches de la recherche fondamentale (physique nucléaire, physique des particules, cosmologie et astrophysique), des avancées technologiques qu’elles nécessitent et de leurs applications sociétales (dans le domaine de l’énergie, de la santé, etc.) est une mission clef des 25 laboratoires de recherche et plateformes nationaux du CNRS/IN2P3 et du CEA/IRFU. Nos activités pédagogiques et de vulgarisation se déroulent en partenariat avec les enseignants et prennent des formes très différentes : visites de laboratoire, journées de découverte « Masterclasses », formations d’enseignants, prêts de détecteurs pédagogiques de muons cosmiques utilisés en classe, supports d’enseignements, expositions, sites internet, visites virtuels, production de contenus audio-visuels, livres, etc.
Notre but : donner aux gens le goût de la science et de la physique
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Nicolas Arnaud
After earning a PhD in the Virgo experiment (direct detection of gravitational waves) and spending a year as a CERN fellow with the LHCb collaboration, Nicolas joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientific (IN2P3/CNRS) in Orsay as a staff physicist. He then began working on the BaBar experiment and for this spent four years at SLAC in California. Upon returning to France in 2009, he got involved in SuperB, the Italian-based project of a new generation super flavour factory, until that endeavor got terminated due to lack of funding.
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Finland
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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 and experimental subatomic physics. The mandate of the institute is to carry out and facilitate research in basic and applied physics as well as in physics research and technology development at international accelerator laboratories. The institute is responsible for the Finnish research collaboration with CERN. Also, the institute coordinates the Finnish contribution to the FAIR laboratory (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) currently under construction in Darmstadt, Germany.
The Helsinki Institute of Physics organises continuing education for Finnish subject teachers as well as science camps for Finnish general upper secondary school pupils at CERN. HIP’s three-year Education and Open Data project is responsible for the above activities and their development. The project uses CERN’s open data in comprehensive and general upper secondary education and trains Finnish teachers throughout Finland in the use of open data and tools. Each year, approximately 15 students from Finnish universities and other higher education institutions participate in HIP’s summer traineeship programme at CERN and ESRF. The summer trainees typically acquire three months of international work experience and have the opportunity to participate in top-level scientific lectures aimed at the trainees.
The CERN Bootcamp, intended for master’s students, was organised together with three universities of applied sciences in summer 2018 and 2019, and another bootcamp is being planned for 2022. The places for Bootcamp are filled with 20 master’s degree students from Haaga-Helia/Laurea/Metropolia and 2-5 students from Universities of Helsinki/Aalto/Jyväskylä/Lappeenranta-Lahti/Tampere. During the bootcamp, students work in groups to resolve current societal problems that often relate to sustainability.
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Fysiikan tutkimuslaitos (HIP) on Helsingin yliopiston, Aalto-yliopiston, Jyväskylän yliopiston, Lappeenrannan teknillisen yliopiston ja Tampereen teknillisen yliopiston yhteinen tutkimuslaitos. Laitos toimii hallinnollisesti Helsingin yliopiston yhteydessä. Fysiikan tutkimuslaitoksessa tehdään sekä teoreettisen että kokeellisen hiukkasfysiikan perustutkimusta. Laitos huolehtii Suomen yhteistyöstä perustutkimuksessa ja soveltavassa tutkimuksessa sekä teknologiakehityksessä kansainvälisten kiihdytinlaboratorioiden kanssa. Laitos on vastuussa Suomen yhteistyöstä Euroopan ydinfysiikan tutkimusjärjestön CERNin kanssa. Laitos koordinoi myös Suomen osallistumista Darmstadtiin rakenteilla olevan FAIR laboratorion toimintaan. Fysiikan tutkimuslaitos organisoi suomalaisten aineopettajien jatkokoulutusta ja lukiolaisten tiedeleirejä CERNissä.
Fysiikan tutkimuslaitoksen kolmevuotinen Opetus ja Avoin data -ohjelma on vastuussa näistä aktiviteeteista ja niiden kehityksestä. Ohjelma käyttää CERNin avointa dataa oppilaitten opetukseen, ja kouluttaa opettajia ympäri Suomen käyttämään avointa dataa ja niihin liittyviä työkaluja. Vuosittain noin 15 opiskelijaa suomalaisista yliopistoista ja korkeakouluista osallistuu kesäharjoitteluohjelmaan CERNissä ja ESRF:ssä (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Grenoblessa, Ranskassa). Kesäharjoittelijat tekevät tyypillisesti kolme kuukautta töitä saaden kansainvälistä työkokemusta, ja heillä on mahdollisuus osallistua korkeatasoisille harjoittelijoille suunnattuille luennoille.
CERN Bootcamp, joka on tarkoitettu maisteriohjelmissa opiskeleville opiskelijoille, järjestettiin yhdessä kolmen ammattikorkeakoulun kanssa kesällä 2018 ja 2019. Seuraava Bootcamp on tarkoitus järjestää 2022. Bootcamp:iin otetaan 20 maisteriohjelmissa opiskelevaa opiskelijaa Haaga-Helia/Laurea/Metropolia ammattikorkeakouluista, ja 2-5 opiskelijaa Helsinki/Aalto/Jyväskylä/Lappeenranta-Lahti/Tampere yliopistoista. Bootcampissä opiskelijat työskentelevät ryhmissä ratkoen ajankohtaisia yhteiskunnallisia ongelmia, jotka usein liittyvät kestävään kehitykseen.
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Sami Lehti
Sami has been a member of the CMS collaboration from 1996. He has specialized on CMS data analysis, search for a Higgs boson with an electric charge, tau physics objects and tau trigger. He has a Title of Docent from experimental particle physics from the University of Helsinki, and he is a senior scientist at the Helsinki Institute of Physics. He has organized Higgs weekends in science centers Heureka (Vantaa, Finland) and Tietomaa (Oulu, Finland), given public lectures, organized Particle Physics Workshops on SciFest (Joensuu, Finland) and written popularized articles.
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Denmark
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Ian Bearden
I am a faculty member at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. I came to Copenhagen in 1994 as a post-doc in high spin gamma ray spectroscopy after receiving my PhD from Purdue University based on research performed as a graduate assistant at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1995, I moved up in energy and joined the High Energy Heavy Ion group where I have been since. I am a member of the ALICE collaboration at the LHC.
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Czech Republic
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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. Heavy ion collisions are studied on STAR and sPHENIX in BNL and HADES and CBM in FAIR as well. Czech teams also participate in Electron-Ion Collider and linear positron-electron collider preparation. Smaller Czech teams are involved in neutrino physics research on NOvA, Daya Bay, JUNO and KATRIN, on astroparticle experiments Auger and CTA, on Belle II "beauty-factory" experiment in KEK and on several other experiments focused on various topics. Theorists are trying to wrap their head around topics like String Theory and Quantum Qravity, Grand Unified Theories, Chiral Perturbation Theory, phenomenology of heavy ion collisions, Cosmology and others.
Many particle physicists all over the Czech Republic enthusiastically organize various outreach events for general public. Physics is brought to music festivals or physics meets arts events, general public and high-school students build simple experiments at workshops or as part of big projects like CZELTA, high-school students are becoming particle physicists for one day in dedicated workshops and they are visiting Czech labs commonly. Of course, Czech physicists give engaging talks for general public, write various kinds of articles, give interviews for TV, radio and newspapers and they visit high-schools or even teach special physics courses for interested high-school students. Particle physicists are in contact with high-school teachers via various programs. For example, high-school teachers have regular opportunities to visit CERN. And high-school students too. Particle physics is our passion!
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Čeští částicoví fyzikové jsou zvědaví a touží odhalovat všechny krásy a tajemství mikrosvěta - podobně jako všichni jejich kolegové z makrosvěta. Desítky českých fyziků studují srážky protonů a těžkých iontů na experimentech ATLAS a ALICE v CERN. Srážky těžkých iontů jsou také zkoumány Čechy na experimentech STAR a sPHENIX v BNL, HADES a CBM ve FAIR. České týmy se také podílejí na přípravách nových urychlovačů, jejichž cílem je studovat srážky elektronů s těžkými ionty a elektronů s pozitrony. Menší české týmy se podílejí na neutrinové fyzice v experimentech NOvA, Daya Bay, JUNO a KATRIN, na astročásticových experimentech Auger a CTA, v "továrně na krásu" Belle II v KEKu a na několika dalších experimentech zaměřujících se na různá témata. Teoretikové se zabývají věcmi, jako jsou strunová teorie, kvantová gravitace, velké unifikační teorie, chirální poruchová teorie, fenomenologie srážek těžkých iontů, kosmologie a další.
Mnozí částicoví fyzikové energicky organizují po celé České republice nejrůznější popularizační akce pro širokou veřejnost. Fyzika se tak dostává na hudební festivaly a prolíná se s uměním v dedikovaných projektech, středoškoláci a veřejnost stavějí jednoduché experimenty na jednorázových workshopech, nebo jako součást velkého projektu CZELTA, středoškoláci se na den stávají částicovými fyziky a také běžně navštěvují české laboratoře. Samozřejmě také částicoví fyzikové v ČR běžně přednášejí pro širokou veřejnost, píší nejrůznější články o fyzice, dávají rozhovory pro televizi, rozhlas a noviny, navštěvují školy a někteří na školách dokonce učí pravidelné výběrové kurzy. Česká komunita částicových fyziků udržuje kontakt se středoškolskými učiteli skrze různé speciální programy. Například mají středoškolští učitelé pravidelné příležitosti k návštěvě CERNu. A také středoškolští studenti. Částicová fyzika je naše vášeň
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Vojtech Pleskot
Vojtech studied particle physics at the Charles University in Prague. He has been a member of the ATLAS collaboration since 2009. From 2015 to 2017, he was a post-doc at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and, currently, he's hired by the Charles University. Vojtech's research interests are all centered around analysis of ATLAS data from proton-proton collisions.
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Bulgaria
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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, education, innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.
Experimentarium – A permanent interactive composition “TechnoMagicLand” for children with interests in the field of natural sciences.
Laboratory complex (R&D&I consortium) – Our 11 laboratories offer an opportunity for development of research and business projects in various research areas.
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София Тех Парк развива дейности в подкрепа на стартиращи предприятия, малки и средни предприятия, наука, образование и иновации. Има няколко основни компонента, включени в парка:
Инкубатор – Общността на инкубатора включва стартиращи и развити компании, инвестиционни фондове и образователни организации.
Форум – Място за събития в областта на науката, образованието, иновациите, технологиите и предприемачеството.
Експериментариум - Постоянна интерактивна композиция “ТехноМеджиkЛенд” за деца с интереси в областта на природните науки.
Лабораторен комплекс (Консорциум за научноизследователска и развойна дейност) – Нашите 11 лаборатории предлагат възможност за развитие на изследователски и бизнес проекти в различни изследователски области.
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Roumyana Mileva Hadjiiska
Roumyana Hadjiiska joined the CMS collaboration in 2010 at the start of her PhD education in the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria. Since then, she dedicates the main part of her time to work within the CMS muon system, including muon physics and muon detector performance. During her PhD she joined also a one year project working for the Technical Transfer Office at the same university.
