ISLAMABAD (APP): Pakistan is all likely to get Associate membership of CERN by June, which will benefit country in various ways including cancer treatment, cleaner source of energy, disposal of nuclear wasteand for industrial sector as well. It will also be beneficial for human resource development and technology transfer in key areas of radiofrequency. “The intellectual benefits are numerous and the scientific approach would increase manifolds”, official sources at Pakistan atomic energy commisssion told APP, here. Pakistan has a long history of collaboration with CERN that began with the signing of a cooperation Agreemnt in 1994. According to sources, a protocol for collaboration was signed in 1997,jointly between PAEC ,National Center for Physics (NCP) and CERN. Under this agreement, Pakistan has supplied 8 Magnet supports to the CMS detector, which were manufactured at the Heavy Mechanical Complex¦3(HMCc3). These supports were delivered to CERN in year 2000, sources added. He said a number of other projects were also undertaken by Pakistani scientists and engineers,prominent among these projects were the supply of 320 Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector. “In 2006, the then President of Pakistan visited CERN and announced an additional contribution of 5m CHF for the CERN scientific programme”.
This contribution has been used in several areas, including the building of YE4 shielding wall for CMS,front end electronics for RPCs, support for students and scientists working with CMS,contribution to the maintenance and operation of CMS detector.
According to this agreement, a team of Pakistani engineers and technicians will work during the long shutdown in 2013 and 2014 and will cut 10,170 points and weld them back with high quality and precision, official said, adding the consolidation team will be paid by CERN. So far, 120 scientists,engineers and students have visited CERN,whereas around 50 scientists and engineers have visited Pakistan from CERN.
Until 2010, the CERN Membership was exclusively retricted to European countries,however it is now open to noncEuropean states as well. To raise the collaboration level between Pakistan and CERN,Pakistan has recently applied for the Associate Memebrship of CERN and fulfills all the criteria for becoming a CERN Associate member.A”The industrial base and experience of high precision manufacturing enables pakistan to make significant contributions to the CERN program”, official concluded.
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