Azerbaijan
Number of CERN users
1 (January 2012)
CERN contact
Participation in CERN Experiments
Participation in CERN Accelerator Projects
WLCG Participation
The Baku group of physicists has contributed through JINR to the production of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter, and participated in physics simulations. There is scientific and official interest in expanding Azerbaijan’s Co-operation with CERN.
Following the initiative of the Azeri Ambassador to the UN who visited CERN in June 2006, and a subsequent visit of the CERN delegation to the Baku Institute of Physics, a new Protocol to the ICA for the participation of Azeri institutes in high-energy physics experiments at CERN was signed in 2007, defining the training of young Azeri scientists (also with the support of JINR) and support to informatics development as highest priorities. Within this programme, in 2008 three Azeri students participated in the CERN Summer School, and the Baku Institute of Physics bought and installed a cluster of 300 declassified CERN computers.