Brazil
Brazilian physicists have been long involved with activities at CERN, including at the NA22 experiment in the '80s. Formal cooperation between CERN and Brazil started in 1990 with the signature of an International Cooperation Agreement, allowing Brazilian researchers to participate in the DELPHI experiment at the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP). Over the past decade, Brazil’s experimental particle-physics community has doubled in size. At the four main Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments alone, about 200 Brazilian scientists, engineers and students collaborate in fields ranging from hardware and data processing to physics analysis.
Today, Brazilian institutes participate in all the main experiments at the LHC – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb and their ongoing and planned upgrades – as well as in ALPHA at the anti-proton decelerator. They are also involved in experiments at ISOLDE, ProtoDUNE at the Neutrino Platform and instrumentation projects such as Medipix. Following on from their participation in the RD51 collaboration, Brazilian teams are also contributing to setting up the DRD1 and DRD3 R&D collaborations for future detectors. Brazilian nationals also participate very actively in CERN training and outreach programmes.
Beyond particle physics, CERN and Brazil’s National Centre for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) have also been formally cooperating since December 2020 on accelerator technology R&D and its applications.
Brazil became a CERN Associate Member State on 13 March 2024
This page was last updated on 24 April, 2024
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