Tag: Classroom materials / Tutorials / Lessons plans / Text books
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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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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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All that MATTERs
The goal of this demonstrator is to teach students the fundamental particles that make up our world.. Students will be asked to form some of the atoms that we find in nature.
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Raios Cósmicos nas Escolas
The site hosts a network of cosmic ray particle detectors that can be built and operated by high school students and teachers. The data measured by these network of detectors is available for any student and teacher, regardless of having the detector in the classroom.
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Discover the Z and Higgs bosons
Introduces students to CERN, LHC and ATLAS; instructions on how to use the HYPATIA event display to analyze data from ATLAS, specifically Z and Higgs boson decays.
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International HST programme – lectures
A WEB portal to the CERN’s international teacher programmes. Simple instructions How-to apply for the programme are provided in the FAQ section.
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Mean Lifetime Part 3: MINERvA
Through the analysis of neutrino events provided by MINERvA, the validity of the mathematical expressions of exponential decay can be checked. Activities for comprehension learners
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Salad Bowl Accelerator
Information This was one of the CERN workshops at the Expanding your Horizons event in Geneva (www.expandingyourhorizons.org/conferences/geneva/). Similar initiative than the one presented here: http://www.instructables.com/community/Build-your-own-particle-accelerator-demo/ Materials Needed (per bowl): Generator: we used a Wimshurst machine, hand operated, produces a direct current A salad bowl, non metallic Electrically Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape (two sizes) Wires (banana/alligator)…
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CMS HEP Tutorial
This tutorial gives a basic introduction into fundamental concepts of data analysis in HEP experiments. In the current format it has been used for a one-week course in the context of a HEP workshop and a data analysis school. It should be most useful for undergraduate students who have the basic knowledge of particle physics,…