Various activities for student understanding

This exercise explains the basics of the standard model of particle physics and particle collisions. It explains what muons are and how their angles can be measured through the use of the HYPATIA event display or the CMS iSpy.

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.

"Mystery boxes are a great tool to practice sci­­­entific reasoning skills and introduce students to the power of scientific models. Students develop hypotheses about the internal structure of a mystery box and come up with ideas on how to test their hypotheses. They also learn about the difference between observation and inference. Below, we present ideas for activities using 3D-printable mystery boxes. If you don’t have access to a 3D printer, you can also build a similar setup using cardboard or build a mystery tube with two ropes.

The book brings a language aimed at the young audience with a bit of humor, and super illustrated. The book deals with some mysteries, interesting stories and important concepts for lovers of the universe. Braille version also linked below.

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