Austria quits CERN after 50 years

摘要

Austria has announced that it will withdraw from CERN, Europe's premier high-energy physics laboratory, located near Geneva in Switzerland. The announcement - just months before the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the worlds most powerful particle accelerator - has left Austrian physicists stunned.rn"It is a black day for Austrian science," says Christian Fabjan, who heads the Institute for High Energy Physics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Fabjan says that he was "totally shocked" by the announcement, which was made on 8 May by Johannes Hahn, the science minister and a member of the conservative Austrian Peoples Party (OEVP).