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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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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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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…
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Cloud Chamber – DIY manual
Particles coming from the universe are crossing the earth all the time – they are harmless but invisible to us. Cloud Chambers are detectors which make the tracks of the particles visible. Some decades ago these detectors were used at CERN in the first particle physics experiments. The following instructions will help you to build…
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Bubble chamber
Dive into the fascinating world of bubble chambers and analyse tracks of high-energy particles with your students. We have developed several activities for advanced high-school students, in which they study bubble chamber photographs and try to work out for themselves what they show. You can find a student worksheet describing these activities (including solutions and…
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Journey to the Unimaginably Strange
This video concentrates on the LHC and the strangeness of our universe it is designed to study. Subjects include What happens within the LHC Theory of relativity How “Sat Nav” or Global Positioning Systems (GPS) work for cars and the possibility of errors in their measurement Extra dimentions Higgs field Mass Mini black holes mini…
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CMS Detector Assembly (17 minutes)
This 17-minute long animation shows the construction of the main structural components of CMS in the surface hall in Cessy and offers a detailed overview of the installation in the experimental cavern. Produced by: CERN Multimedia Production Unit Director: Silvano de Gennaro 17:00 min. / 01 June 2003