IPPOG
Members
Slovenia
Intro
Slovenia has been involved with various big particle physics projects almost as long as it has been a country. Indeed, the first collaboration agreement between CERN and Slovenia dates back to the same year (1991). However, Slovenian physicists were already involved with various particle physics experiments before that time. Nowadays, Slovenian scientific institutions collaborate with the ATLAS experiment at CERN, experiments Belle and Belle II at KEK, and observatory Pierre Auger. Slovenian physicists also organise various Masterclasses, science shows, talks and open days for high-school students, as well as co-coordinate Slovenian Teacher Programmes in connection with CERN.
Details
JOINED: 2016
CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER
Slovenija se v svet fizike delcev vključuje skoraj od prvega dne samostojnosti. Prvi sporazum med Slovenijo in CERNom je bil tako sklenjen že leta 1991. Slovenski fiziki pa so bili v razne eksperimente fizike delcev po svetu vključeni že pred tem. Danes razne slovenske raziskovalne institucije v fiziki delcev sodelujejo z eksperimentom ATLAS v CERNu, eksperimentoma Belle in Belle II v KEKu in observatorijem Pierre Auger. Poleg tega slovenski fiziki in fizičarke organizirajo različne Masterclass-e, znanstvene predstave, predavanja in dneve odprtih vrat za dijake in dijakinje. V sodelovanjem s CERNom pa organizirajo tudi programe za slovenske učitelje in učiteljice.
JOINED: 2016
CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER
Representative
Senior researcher
J.Stefan Institute F9 - Experimental Particle Physics Department Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Andrej Gorišek
Andrej is a senior researcher at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, working at the Experimental Particle Physics Department. So far he worked for experiments at three different laboratories: DESY in Germany, KEK in Japan, and CERN crossing the Franco-Swiss border. Currently he is part of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN, where he engages in exotic searches and in development of new solid state detectors for high radiation environments at high energy physics experiments. Some of them will possibly be used for the next generation of particle tracking detectors while few of them are already installed in the ATLAS experiment measuring luminosity, beam conditions and protecting ATLAS Inner Detector from anomalous beam behaviour. Many of them are made of extremely pure version of pCVD diamond material.
Andrej decided to become a physicist already very early on at the end of primary school, partially due to exposure to an excellent TV series Cosmos by Carl Sagan. He thinks that outreach is very important especially for attracting young people and wakening their interest in physics and in science in general. Since 2016 he is organising the International Masterclasses in Slovenia and is Slovenia's first representative to IPPOG since it joined in Spring 2016.
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