Australia
Number of CERN users
24 (January 2012)
CERN contact
Participation in CERN Experiments
Participation in CERN Accelerator Projects
WLCG Participation
Tier-2 centre
Earlier participation by Australian physicists in UA2 and NOMAD has been followed up by substantial involvement in ATLAS. This is led by a group of high-energy physicists at the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney, which also participate in the BELLE experiment at KEK in Japan. Australia participates in the Silicon Tracker of ATLAS and has also prepared a Tier-2 centre for the ATLAS Grid computing.
Recently, the collaboration between CERN and Australia has been enlarged through the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) signing an agreement with CERN concerning collaboration in nuclear, accelerator and materials science and through the Australian Synchrotron concluding an agreement with CERN concerning collaboration in accelerator science and related technologies.
The new Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale will for the first time coordinate terascale high-energy physics research across Australia, creating new research groups at the Universities of Adelaide and Sydney and augmenting groups at Melbourne and Monash. Funding for the Centre is substantial and it will greatly enhance international linkages, including with CERN.
The new Australian Collaboration for Accelerator Science (ACAS) is a collaboration between the Australian National University, ANSTO, the Australian Synchrotron and the University of Melbourne. ACAS has become the latest participant in the CLIC/CTF3 Collaboration. The agreement, which is an addendum to the standard CLIC/CTF3 memorandum of understanding, specifies the contribution of the ACAS to the CLIC/CTF3 Collaboration, focusing on studies for the damping rings and for the accelerating RF test modules.
Melbourne has been chosen to host the International Conference on High Energy Physics in 2012 (ICHEP 2012).