Georgia
Number of CERN users
10 (January 2012)
CERN contact
Participation in CERN Experiments
Participation in CERN Accelerator Projects
WLCG Participation
Georgian physicists started participating in CERN activities already in the early 1960s. Some of them played leading roles in the Boson Spectrometer experiment, approved at CERN in 1969 and carried out at Serpukhov. In the 1980s, individual Georgian physicists made recognized contributions to DELPHI and ALEPH. Two Georgian teams, essentially supported by JINR, are involved in the ATLAS experiment. Young Georgian physicists have taken part in ATLAS detector construction in JINR, specifically in the preparation of the Muon Chambers and the Tile Calomieter.
Through an Agreement with IBM, the Tbilisi Institute of High Energy Physics obtained a special engineering design software license, and has done well-appreciated work for ATLAS.
There is visible scientific and official interest in expanding Georgian Co-operation with CERN. A new Co-operation Agreement has been prepared which, besides reflecting the new responsibility of the Ministry of Science and Education for funding scientific activities in the country, should provide a more firm basis for a long-term, stable Co-operation with CERN.