Tag: Upper secondary school level
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3D-Printable Quadrupole Ion Trap
Quadrupole ion traps can be used to trap electrically charged particles. At CERN, the GBAR experiment at the antimatter factory uses this particle trap to store anti-hydrogen-ions. Below you can find building instruction for 3D-printable quadrupole ion trap capable of trapping electrically charged “macroscopic particles” such as cinnamon of lycopodium spores. The trap uses an…
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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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3D-Printable Scattering Experiment
Scattering experiments (e.g. the gold foil experiment) are important research tools of nuclear and particle physics. They help us to study interactions between particles and to obtain information about the structure of matter. Below, we present activities using a mechanical 3D-printable scattering experiment. The activities include different difficulty levels, in which high-school students can study…
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Particle Builder Board Game
Particle builder is a particle physics board game developed by Lachlan McGinness, HarriLeinonen and Rowan McGinness. The game is designed to familiarise students (aged 16-18 years) in groups of 2-3 players with the elementary particles in the standard model. The game involves playing cards which represent elementary particles and comparing the properties of these elementary…
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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
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laradioactivite.com
This web site intends to introduce radioactivity and its applications to the general public. It has been created and maintained by physicists with the help of the Science Editor EDP-Sciences (EDITIONS DE PHYSIQUE) and with the help of the Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et Physique des Particules (IN2P3).