The European Organization for Nuclear Research is a research organization
operating world's largest particle physics laboratory. The organisation was
established in 1954 with 20 European member states. Israel is the first and the only
non-European country granted full membership. The Organisation has 7 Associate
Members and 5 countries have observer status.
The
Research Organisation employs around 4000 part and full time employees, hosts
around 10000 visiting scientists and engineers from around 600 universities and
research facilities.
The
Research Organisation functions to provide the particle accelerators and other
infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – as a result, numerous
experiments have been constructed following international collaborations.
Soon
after the laboratory's establishment, its work went beyond the study of the
atomic nucleus into higher-energy physics, which is concerned mainly with the
study of interactions between particles. Therefore the laboratory is commonly
referred to as the European Laboratory for particle physics.
The
1984 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer
for the developments that led to the discoveries of the W and Z bosons. The
1992 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to its staff researcher Georges Charpak
"for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular
the multiwire proportional chamber."
The
Research Organisation operates a network of six accelerators and a decelerator.
Each machine in the chain increases the energy of particle beams before
delivering them to experiments or to the next more powerful accelerator.
In
July 2012, its scientists announced the discovery of a new sub-atomic particle
that could be the much sought after Higgs boson believed to be essential for
formation of the Universe.
In
India, Nuclear Power is the fourth-largest source of electricity and as of 2012
we had 20 nuclear reactors in operation and 7 under construction with an
installed capacity of 4780 MW and 6100 MW in pipeline, but:
The
sadden part of the story is India being “Non-NPT Nuclear Power”, in this Research
Organisation since 2002, we are just in the
category of observers only and our immediate counterpart's name has been
unanimously approved by the council for the process of achieving associate
membership, at a meeting on September 17, 2013, which could potentially lead to
Pakistan’s associate membership by the end of 2014.
The
research opportunities and the scholarships to the nuclear scientists and
research students are being offered depending upon the status of the member
countries and our visiting scientists and engineers are not getting the
opportunities ……. but who cares~~~~~~
