Country

Greece

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 the National Research Centre “Democritos”. Experimental groups from Athens, Aegean, Ioannina and Thessaloniki participate in ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments.

France

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.

Finland

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.

Czech Republic

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.