Category: Resources
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The Particle Adventure
An award winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators and particle detectors from the Particle Data Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Scientific American review: “Berkeley National Laboratory’s particle physicists have created an accessible, entertaining primer on, as they describe it, what the world is made of and what holds…
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PhD TV The Higgs Boson Explained
A short and clever video animation using cartoons and voice over. This can also be printed out as a comic book. The PhD Comics team visit particle physicist David Whiteson at CERN where he talks to us about what the mysterious Higgs Boson is and how the Large Hadron Collider is going to find it…
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Be a physicist- Dans la peau dun chercheur-En el piel de un investigator
At CERN, some 10,000 physicists are investigating elementary particles that cannot be seen by the naked eye. The schoolchildren taking part in the project conduct investigations, just like the physicists, on sealed boxes containing unknown objects. To work out what’s inside, they have to proceed through a series of hypotheses and experiments. Throughout the project,…
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Elementary Particle Cards
This package contains a set of cards that can be used in physics lessons or Particle Physics Masterclasses to introduce, explain and repeat the different particles and their fundamntal properties. One set consists of 61 Cards with 24 Cards of matter particles and antimatter particles respectively, 12 exchange particles and the Higgs boson. (availble in…
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How to build a cloud chamber
The cloud chamber is one of the oldest detectors for elementary particles. A simple type of a cloud chamber can be built with materials that are easy to purchase. This instruction shows how to build a cloud chamber and gives information on the traces left by particles as well as the particles themselves.
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The ATLAS-Detector
ATLAS is a modern detector for elementary particles located are CERN. It allows to trace particles that are generated at proton collisions at the LHC. This package allows you to understand the fundamental principles of the detector. The main document consists of worksheets, videos, a presentation, questions and answers on particle detectors.
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Particle Physics Teaching Material: Charges, Interactions and Particles
This textbook is part of a four-volume series of teaching material on particle physics developed by the German Netzwerk Teilchenwelt in cooperation with the Joachim Herz Foundation. It covers the theoretical background of the Standard Model of particle physics in a didactically reduced way and primarily serves as a source of information for teachers, although…
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Experience CERN 360: a web documentary
The “Experience CERN 360” web documentary (http://experience-cern360.fr) is a website in French developed by the CNRS, the CEA and the ExplorNova collaboration (CEA Irfu & iRélité/Capacités SAS) for the CERN 60th anniversary in 2014. 10 entry points marked by white icons on an aerial picture of the CERN area (with the main elements of the…
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Asimmetrie n. 18: #newphysics
The discovery of the Higgs boson came at the end of a long journey, where the direction was marked, but the road had to be built. What now? Now the physicists are looking out onto a world we don’t know, where there are no paths, and even the directions to be followed aren’t very clear.…
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Science Journal — Elémentaire – No 9 : Les premiers résultats du LHC
This is number 9 of a series of journals. 9th issue, published in September 2016. Complete title of journal is “Élémentaire – de linfiniment petit à linfiniment grand.” Élémentaire (“Elementary”) is an outreach journal in French whose eight issues cover the particle physics, from the atom to the discoveries expected at the CERN Large Hadron…