Taking a closer look at LHC

CERN Budget

CERN Budget 2023

(Taken from https://cds.cern.ch/record/2847387/files/English.pdf )

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CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE MEMBER STATES AND ASSOCIATE MEMBER STATES FOR 2023

(The budget contributions of member states are computed based on their Gross Domestic Product)

Income Summary

To put the CERN budget in context (~€1200 millions), we can approximate the value of transfers in Europe's top football leagues.
In the Premier League, teams spent €22OO millions in the summer of 2022.
And if we add up what the top five European leagues spent together, the amount reaches €3700 millions in new players.

(More information in CERN in Figures)

AUTHORS

Xabier Cid Vidal, PhD in experimental Particle Physics for Santiago University (USC). Research Fellow in experimental Particle Physics at CERN from January 2013 to Decembre 2015. He was until 2022 linked to the Department of Particle Physics of the USC as a "Juan de La Cierva", "Ramon y Cajal" fellow (Spanish Postdoctoral Senior Grants), and Associate Professor. Since 2023 is Senior Lecturer in that Department.(ORCID).

Ramon Cid Manzano, until his retirement in 2020 was secondary school Physics Teacher at IES de SAR (Santiago - Spain), and part-time Lecturer (Profesor Asociado) in Faculty of Education at the University of Santiago (Spain). He has a Degree in Physics and a Degree in Chemistry, and he is PhD for Santiago University (USC) (ORCID).

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