CERN as an organisation is world’s largest nuclear and particle physics laboratory.
It is situated in North West suburbs of Geneva on France-Swiss Border. It was established in 1954.
Members: It has 22 member states, four associate members (including India, Pakistan, Turkey and Ukraine) and three International Organisations have observer status.
Functions: The laboratory helps scientists and engineers probing fundamental structure of Universe using the most sophisticated scientific instruments and advanced computing systems.
Provide the necessary infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research including particle accelerators.
Achievements: CERN operates the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It is associated with the discovery of the Higgs Boson which is popularly known as the God particle.
India-CERN
India has been actively involved in CERN’s activities for over 50 years.
Indian physicists, engineers and technicians have made substantial contributions to various projects of CERN.
In 1991, India and CERN had signed a Cooperation Agreement, setting priorities for scientific cooperation. Since then India and CERN have signed several other protocols. Indian scientists had active in construction of the LHC in the areas of design, development and supply of hardware accelerator components, software development and deployment in the machine.
They also had played significant role in the CMS (Compact Muon Experiment), one of the two large experiments that led to discovery of God particle.
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