scientists and will also allow indian industry to participate in bids for cern contracts across various sectors india was given observer status in cern in 2002 today cern has 21 member states and romania is a candidate to become a member state observer status allows nonmember states to attend council meetings and to receive council documents without taking part in the decisionmaking procedures of the organization read also scientists find 2 new subatomic particles at cern highenergy physicists from india mainly from the tata institute of fundamental research tifr have been participating in experiments at cern since the 1970s a maintenance worker inspects the large hadron collider tunnel at the cern facility subsequently the tifrehep group joined the l3 experiment contributing hardware for the endcap hadron calorimeter making major contributions to core software and participating in important physics analyses such as the line shape analysis higgs searches qcd and bquark physics some 10000 visiting scientists from over 113 countries half of the worlds particle physicists come to cern for their research