Argentina
Number of CERN users
18 (January 2011)
CERN contact
Participation in CERN Experiments
Participation in CERN Accelerator Projects
WLCG Participation
One of the first participations of Argentinian scientists in CERN activities took place in 1975-1978 with scientists from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMP) participating in the design and modification of power supplies for focusing magnets in the group PS/PO. Subsequently, individual high-energy physicists participated in EMC and L3.
In 1992 an ICA was signed with the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), which was replaced in 2007 by a higher-level ICA with the Government of Argentina.
The third CERN-LA School of Physics, for postgraduate students working towards a PhD, was organized in Malargüe (Argentina) in 2005. The HELEN Network has been very helpful for the development of the CERN-Argentinian relations, being instrumental for the groups of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and the Universidad Nacional de la Plata (UNLP) to become members of the ATLAS Collaboration. The President of Argentina visited CERN in 2009.