Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)

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Matter, Particles and the Universe

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Published: April 3, 2021

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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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Particles and Their Interactions
Particles and Their Interactions
Technologies and Experiments
Detectors
Data Analysis

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Nature of science
Scientific inquiry and reasoning
Measurements and uncertainties
Sensors
Measurements
Matter
Structure of matter

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Published: March 23, 2021

« The Higgs Discovery Explained »

First video in a series of three. How exactly do particle physicists observe and discover particles? This mini-series provides a simple explanation of the process, based of the discovery of the Higgs boson, starting from the role of particle accelerators.

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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Higgs

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Measurements and uncertainties
Measurements

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Published: November 30, 2020

Conservation of momentum in particle collisions

Students will determine the total momentum from all particles tracked after a particle collision and they will calculate the missing momentum(magnitude & direction). Exercise of kinematics in particle physics

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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Particles and Their Interactions
Technologies and Experiments
Data Analysis

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Measurements and uncertainties
Measurements
Measurement uncertainties

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Published: June 24, 2020

The dawn of neutrino astronomy

This is an informative e-book about the Cosmos, which can be downloaded in pdf version, written by various authors, reputed scientists and excellent popularisers in their different areas of work and study.(in Spanish). A chapter is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.

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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Cosmology
Particle Physics and Society
People Behind the Science

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Nature of science
Scientific inquiry and reasoning
Special topics
Structure of matter

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Published: June 20, 2020

SPRACE Game

The game teaches students particle physics concepts not addressed by the curriculum of many Brazilian schools, such as quarks, leptons and other subatomic particles

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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Particles and Their Interactions
Particles and Their Interactions

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Matter
Structure of matter
Charges and fundamental interactions
Strong interaction

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Published: June 20, 2020

TRAJETÓRIAS DA FÍSICA DE PARTÍCULAS

With the support of interactive tools, audios, videos and images, the material promotes a journey through field research and explores some of the great scientific projects in the area today. Broad knowledge of particle physics available in portuguese for students and public in general.

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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Particles and Their Interactions
Particles and Their Interactions
Particle Physics and Society
Why Fundamental Research
International Collaboration

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Nature of science
Scientific inquiry and reasoning
Special topics
Cosmology
Objects in the universe

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Published: June 20, 2020

UM CARTAZ EM CADA ESCOLA

SPRACE distributed to all secondary schools in Brazil a poster presenting concepts about the intimate structure of matter and summarising the current scientific knowledge in this area

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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Particles and Their Interactions
Particles and Their Interactions
Cosmology
Higgs
Antimatter
Exploring the Unknown (Beyond Known Physics)
Technologies and Experiments
Accelerators
Particle Physics and Society
Why Fundamental Research
International Collaboration

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Nature of science
Scientific inquiry and reasoning
Measurements and uncertainties
Matter
Structure of matter
States of matter

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Published: June 20, 2020

SPRACE Game

The game teaches students particle physics concepts not addressed by the curriculum of many Brazilian schools, such as quarks, leptons and other subatomic particles.

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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Particles and Their Interactions
Particles and Their Interactions
Exploring the Unknown (Beyond Known Physics)
Technologies and Experiments
Accelerators
Detectors
Computing
Particle Physics and Society
Why Fundamental Research
International Collaboration

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Nature of science
Scientific inquiry and reasoning
Matter
Structure of matter
Charges and fundamental interactions
Strong interaction
Weak interaction
Electromagnetism

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Published: June 9, 2020

Playlist of short interviews to Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose, (answer eng sub ita , questions ita)

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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Particles and Their Interactions
Particles and Their Interactions
Cosmology

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Nature of science

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Published: May 2, 2020

Cartoon about space

The history of the universe in Luca Ralli's animated drawings By INFN Communication Office Animated drawings by Luca Ralli Project and texts by Francesca Scianitti Voice: Maria Giulia Scarcella Sound effects and audio editing: Fabio Vignaroli With the contribution of Antonella Varaschin

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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Particles and Their Interactions
Cosmology
Antimatter
Particle Physics and Society

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Nature of science
Matter