Finnish companies take part in a major science project
CERN CLIC test zoneFive Finnish companies take part in developing technology for a future particle collider. The new collider is being designed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN. The decision about the collider's building will be made in the next five years.
The Finnish coordinator for CERN-cooperation is the Helsinki Institute of Physics, which is a physics research institute operated jointly by the University of Helsinki, Aalto University, University of Jyväskylä, Lappeenranta University of Technology and Tampere University of Technology.
The project is supported by the European Union-funded MeChanICs (Marie Curie linking Industry to CERN) project, which has a budget of over one million euro. The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology Tekes takes also part in the project's funding and preparations. The project is trusted to open doors for Finnish expertise once the search for accelerator component suppliers has begun.
- This strengthens Finland's position as a technology supplier for the CLIC collider, and Finnish special expertise in research carried out on linear colliders, tells Project Leader Dr. Kenneth Österberg from Helsinki Institute of Physics.
Finnish companies and research teams give their own input by spending a year at CERN, where development work is carried out mainly on the design and manufacture of accelerator elements for particle colliders. Once completed, the new Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) will be a 48 kilometre-long particle accelerator, which will be positioned in an underground tunnel.
