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Most of the people who make CERN work aren't working for CERN. The IT department is under CERN, but there are many thousands of "users" who don't get payed by C
by dguest 2y ago
Most of the people who make CERN work aren't working for CERN. The IT department is under CERN, but there are many thousands of "users" who don't get payed by CERN at all. Quite a lot of the fabrication and most of the physics analysis is done by national labs and universities around the world.
- elashri 2y agoCERN budget on experiment level is being paid mostly by contributions from the institutions that is part of this experiment. I am talking about operation, R&D and this would also include personnel contributions to different aspect. There is also service work that each one of the users must do beside doing physics. I am for example work on software development stack beside my current physics analysis. Some of my colleagues working on hardware. Then there are country level contributions that pays for CERN infrastructure and maintenance (and inter experiment stuff) and direct employees salaries.
- dguest 2y agoThe important point here is that (I believe) the 1.4 billion above doesn't account for all the work done directly by institutes. Institutes pay CERN, but they also channel government grants to fund a huge amount of work directly. Most of the people I know who "worked at" CERN never got a pay check that said CERN on it.