Mexico
Number of CERN users
43 (January 2012)
CERN contact
Participation in CERN Experiments
Participation in CERN Accelerator Projects
WLCG Participation
Individual Mexican physicists have been working on experiments at CERN since UA1 (in the 1980s). A Mexican group comprising several institutes has been participating in ALICE for several years, working principally on the trigger system and in connection with cosmic-ray physics, and another group has joined CMS.
An Agreement has been signed with the National Autonomous University of Mexico to co-finance working exchange visits. The CERN-LA School of Physics was held in Mexico in 2003. Contacts with Mexico were strengthened by its participation in HELEN and EELA.
On the occasion of the LHC inauguration in October 2008, the Joint Director for Scientific and Academic Development of Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) visited CERN.