University of Montenegro a Full Member of Scientific Collaboration RD50 in CERN
With a uniform adoption of application of the University of Montenegro by the Board of Scientific Collaboration RD50 (Radiation hard semiconductor devices for very high luminosity colliders), the University of Montenegro has become a full member of scientific collaboration RD50 in CERN, on November 18th 2019.
The Board of Scientific Collaboration RD50 (Radiation hard semiconductor devices for very high luminosity colliders) is composed of more than 60 institutions worldwide seated in CERN.
Professor of Physics and international expert in physics of elementary particles and detector engineering Gordana Laštovicka-Medin, PhD presented group of scientists from the University of Montenegro in her coordination, as well as the group program within this XXXV working meeting of scientific collaboration RD50 seated in CERN.
For the first time in history of Montenegro, scientists of Montenegro will, as a national team, participate in development of silicon detectors for current and future hadron collisions. Group of scientists from the UMNE will be included in development of state-of-the-art sensors necessary for upgrading detectors in experiments ATLAS and CMS.
With participating in collaboration RD50, scientists from Montenegro will not only work on analysis of measured data with the help of detectors set in CERN, but will also actively participate in constructing hadron collisions.
A special active participation of Montenegro is expected on R&D, a very precise sensor LGAD (Low Gain Avalanche Detector) that will present a crucial component of CMS and ATLAS experiment. LGAD is developed just inside of RD50 collaboration, and LGAD sensors are developed inside of RD50 and they are implemented in medicine (CT-scanning in hadron therapy).
Research projects of scientific collaboration RD50 seated in CERN are related to innovation, development and fabrication of state-of-the-art detectors, resilient to a high radiation, with fantastic time and space resolution that will give better sensitivity to detection of existing particles, better precision of measuring and it will provide discovering new particles which was not feasible so far.
Source: Ministarstvo nauke (the Ministry of Science)