About us
The EP department conducts research in experimental particle and nuclear physics in close collaboration with and supporting the wider scientific community working at CERN. This includes designing and operating experiments, developing and constructing detectors, acquiring and analysing physics data. EP also plays an important role in the research and development of technologies required for future experiments and in the education and training of young scientists. It is an important reference centre for the European physics community.
EP is one of the largest departments at CERN, with about 500 staff members and over 550 other members of personnel: Fellows, Associates, Graduates, Students and Apprentices. In addition it hosts the approximately 12,500 Users that visit CERN from their home institutes around the world to perform scientific research.
