Canada

Number of CERN users

169 (October 2011)

CERN contact

R. Voss

Participation in CERN Experiments

ATLAS, ALPHA, ATRAP, CAST, ISOLDE

Participation in CERN Accelerator Projects

LHC and injector chain

WLCG Participation

Tier-1 centre, 2 Tier-2 centres

Collaborating Institutes

° University of Alberta
° University of British Columbia
° University of Calgary
° University of Carleton
° McGill University
° University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
° University of Montreal
° University of Regina
° Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
° University of Toronto
° TRIUMF, Vancouver
° University of Victoria
° York University

Canada has a strong intermediate-energy laboratory, the TRIUMF National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, and a successful underground laboratory, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), that is now being expanded. In the past its HEP community has been carrying out experiments in the US as well as in Europe, notably the OPAL experiment at LEP.

Via the National Research Council Canada (NRC), with funding through TRIUMF, Canada made important contributions to the LHC warm insertions and injection lines.

Canadian scientists are contributing in a substantial way to the ATLAS experiment, with funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Canadian activities in particle physics are coordinated through the national Institute of Particle Physics.

Canada is contributing to the deployment of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) via a Tier-1 centre at TRIUMF funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and participates in several non-LHC experiments.