João BENTO A short film about CERN and particle physics (~ 10 min)

Today’s Schedule of Your Visit
(1) Presentation about CERN (~ 20 min)
-- João BENTO
(2) A short film about CERN and particle
physics (~ 10 min)
(3) A visit to CERN facilities (~ 1-2 hours)

05 Novembre 2003 2
European Organization for Nuclear Research
1. What and where is CERN?
2. What does CERN do and how does CERN
do it?
3. LHC (The Large Hadron Collider) and its
4 experiments
4. Particle physics and standard model
5. Spin-off of the particle physics (e.g.
WWW was invented at CERN)
6. Summary

CERN member states
•Founded in 1954 by 12 countries
•Today: 20 member states
•More than 7000 users from all over the world
•~1000 MCHF / Year budget
1954: Convention establishing the Organization - original signatures 2004: The 20 member states

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CERN in Numbers
•2256 staff
•~700 other paid personnel
•~9500 users
•Budget (2009) 1100 MCHF
•20 Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the
Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the
United Kingdom.
•1 Candidate for Accession to Membership of
CERN: Romania
•8 Observers to Council: India, Israel, Japan, the
Russian Federation, the United States of America,
Turkey, the European Commission and Unesco