Iceland
Number of CERN users
3 (January 2012)
CERN contact
Participation in CERN Experiments
Participation in CERN Accelerator Projects
WLCG Participation
The collaboration with Iceland was based initially on the exchange of theoretical physicists and through nuclear physicists participating in the CERN physics programme, primarily at ISOLDE as members of universities in Denmark and Norway.
In 2004, CERN established direct contact with high-energy particle physicists of the University of Iceland in Reykjavik in order to assist them in their efforts to obtain financial support from their government, so as to establish a sustainable high-energy particle physics community.
Opportunities for Iceland to participate in NorduGrid and the ATLAS Collaboration were identified and have been followed up. Additionally, scientists from the University of Iceland are participating in experiments at ISOLDE on Mossbauer studies of dilute semiconductors. The ATLAS and ISOLDE activities are in conjunction with Norwegian and Danish institutions, respectively.
Moreover, students from Iceland have been participating on a regular basis in the CERN Summer Student Programme.