The agency had already announced that it would not renew its cooperation agreement with Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine.
Nov. 3 () – Russia is finalizing its definitive withdrawal in December of this year from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), one of the most important research centers in the world in particle physics and home of the accelerator. of largest particles on the planet, after months of relations suspended by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The CERN council announced in June of that year, four months after the invasion began, that it would not extend the cooperation agreements with Russia once they expired in December 2024 after denouncing “the continued illegal military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation”.
The director of the particle physics division of the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Beate Heinemann, has confirmed the preparations and lamented the obstacle that this represents for scientific progress.
“It is not that the end of collaboration makes investigations impossible, but it does make things difficult and there may be delays,” he told the DPA agency.
The nearly 1,000 Russian scientists working with CERN so far have spent the last few weeks passing on the rest of their knowledge to their colleagues, said the organization’s research director, Joachim Mnich.
The director of the Institute for Experimental Particle Physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Markus Klute, has regretted the end of a professional relationship that dates back to the Cold War, when the Russians and CERN worked side by side out of pure curiosity. scientific. “That no longer seems possible and it is a real shame,” he admitted.
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