Subatomic ambitions take five Indian school students to CERN
A team of five Indian students won the 13th edition of CERN's 'Beamline for Schools' competition. Their project focused on pion charge exchange, providing data that could assist the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in the U.S.
Why it matters
This highlights international collaboration in high-energy physics and the involvement of high school students in cutting-edge scientific research.
A group of Indian school students are among the five winning teams of the 13th edition of the ‘Beamline for Schools’ competition, a physics competition for high school students from all around the world organised by CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics , in Geneva.
The Indian team, named “attoPION”, comprises Nenavath Abhay Vivek, Sidhartha Aniket Jaiswal, Ayush Bhardwaj, Aarush Mandala, and Aritra Sadhukhan. They are from Bansal Junior College Nizamabad; Greenwood High International School, Bengaluru; The Shri Ram Global School, Greater Noida; and Purv International School, Durgapur.
They found each other through different science competitions they participated in.
A beamline is a facility that provides high-energy fluxes of subatomic particles that can be used to conduct experiments in different fields, including fundamental physics, material science and medicine. The other four winning teams are from Bangladesh, Türkiye, the U.K., and the U.S.
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