Montenegro Officially Presented at the CMS Board at CERN

Montenegro was officially presented at the CMS Board at CERN today. Our country applied for the first time for full membership in the CMS experiment, one of the largest LHC experiments at CERN, which involves more than 3,000 scientists, engineers and students from 200 research institutions worldwide.

On behalf of Montenegro, the research group currently composed of physicists and engineers from the University of Montenegro was presented by a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Dr. Nataša Raičević. Montenegrin group proposed to the CMS Board concrete projects on which work would be undertaken in the field of fundamental research, as well as on improving the detector.

According to the rules of the CMS collaboration, voting will take place at the next session of the Collaboration Board, to be held on 23 June.

In the event that the decision is positive, Montenegro would enter the CERN’s scientific map for the first time. Networking our researchers with leading scientists in their field and their involvement in the latest technology projects has multi-layered significance. The youngest researchers, attending the master’s or doctoral study programmes, will also be part of these projects and will be able to conduct their research directly from the Montenegrin institutions, thanks to the availability of data.

The expansion of international institutionalized cooperation is important not only for science but also for the overall process of EU integration and the general reputation of Montenegro, which would, thanks to this international project, be part of the European Research Network.

CMS is one of the most complex scientific projects in which the highest energy collisions so far have been produced. It has become the focus of the world public in 2012, due to the discovery of the Higgs boson.

As of 2010, more than 500 research papers were written through the Collaboration, on the basis of the data obtained in the experiment.