This exercise in an introduction to particle accelerators and high energy physics. The students play a game in which they have to apply what they’ve learned in a ‘virtual accelerator’.

This scenario explains what cosmic rays are and how they interact with the earth’s atmosphere.It explains how time dilation works and how the students can use real data from cosmic ray detectors installed at schools all over the world to make their own plots.

Within the II Jornadas Científicas organised by CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain) on the occasion of Science Week 2020, lectures on the fundamental structure of matter, on dark matter and on the Cosmos, bringing together research from the very small to the very large

This presentation was given at TEDxTUM 2015 in front of a large public audience and was recorded and published on the TEDxTUM site, as well as on their YouTube channel. It attempts to answer the question of why we do basic research by describing it as a necessary facet of human survival.

Author: Letizia Diamante Primary and Middle school English and French

Buried 100m below the French / Swiss countryside, between the Alps and the Jura Mountains, is a 27km tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. This chain of superconducting magnets accelerates protons to high energies and then collides them in four different underground halls. Inside these halls are enormous, highly complex particle detectors, each bearing millions of electronic channels, and designed to reconstruct the remnants of the collisions. The talk describes the LHC, the detectors, the collaborations that built and run them, and the motivation for their existence.

A 55 page color-A4 booklet.This brochure illustrates the incredible journey of a proton as he winds his way through the CERN accelerator chain and ends up inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is CERN's flagship particle accelerator which can collide protons together at close to the speed of light, creating circumstances like those just seconds after the Big Bang.
Chapter Titles:
Destination Universe
The unknown realms of physics
Return to the source
The acceleration chain
Precision racetrack
An empty space full of high-tech

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).

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 big bangs in ALICE and the quark gluon plasma
Produced by: Mannmade Productions
Director: Chris Mann
08:02 min. / 10 September 2008 / CERN Copyright

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 scattering qualitatively, semi-quantitatively or quantitatively.