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The US is not even a member of CERN.
by davrosthedalek 8y ago
The US is not even a member of CERN.
- rmcpherson 8y agoTrue but the U.S. has contributed hundreds of millions to the LHC and still does. https://www.aip.org/fyi/2008/us-contribution-lhc-budget-and-ahead-schedule https://www.aip.org/fyi/2008/us-contribution-lhc-budget-and-...
- Iwan-Zotow 8y agoAccelerator itself is mostly CERN responsibility, but detectors are usually international collaborations. US contributed a lot to the CMS detector at LHC (as well as Russia, another non-member state). https://science.energy.gov/~/media/hep/pdf/files/pdfs/uslhccmsdetjune2002rept.pdf https://science.energy.gov/~/media/hep/pdf/files/pdfs/uslhcc... http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/using-russian-navy-shells http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/using-russian-navy-shells