Colombia
Number of CERN users
10 (January 2012)
CERN contact
Participation in CERN Experiments
Participation in CERN Accelerator Projects
WLCG Participation
There have been contacts with Colombian theoretical physicists for many years, and a Colombian experimental group has been a member of the D0 Collaboration at Fermilab. A visit to Colombia in 2005 provided the opportunity to activate experimental collaboration with CERN, and the HELEN programme has enabled several young Colombian scientists to come to CERN.
A group from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota was subsequently accepted in the CMS Collaboration, and a group from the Universidad Antonio Nariño, also in Bogota, joined ATLAS in 2007.
Medical and theoretical physicists from the Universidad Nacional, in Bogota, also have contacts with CERN. Contacts with Colombia were greatly helped by HELEN.