Animation / Simulations

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Published: October 6, 2014

Local LHC Map

This online tool gives you a sense of scale for large particle accelerators. You can choose to place a ring of the size of the LHC, Tevatron or FCC on a map of your local area. Take screenshots to use in your presentations when you visit other cities, to show the locals how big the LHC would be if built in their neighbourhood.

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Particle Physics and Society
International Collaboration
People Behind the Science

School Topics

Nature of science
Scientific inquiry and reasoning

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Published: April 5, 2012

Scale of the Universe 2

A simple application that allows user to zoom out to the infinitely big, and zoom into the infinitely small, allowing the user to understand the scale of things in our universe. This tool is great for classrooms as well as for anyone who just wants to play and learn! For more info: Cary & Michael Huang (http://htwins.net)

Topics

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

School Topics

Measurements and uncertainties
Measurements
Matter
Structure of matter

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Published: November 17, 2011

Particle Masses, what if they would have been different? / Teilchenmassen – Was wäre wenn sie anders wären?

This video tells you, why particle masses are central for our daily life, and why especially their values are crucial. This is the real reason why all of us should be curious where mass comes from. Making of:: The organizers of the German exhibition die Welt Maschine (2008), the German Executive LHC Outreach Group (GELOG), wanted to explain to exhibition visitors why it is necessary to understand the origin of mass. The animation studio Tricklabor was brought on board to help develop a concept for an exhibition display about the subject.

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

School Topics

Matter
Structure of matter
Mass

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Published: October 3, 2011

Exhibit Neutrino Pendulum

This is the worldwide first model of coupled pendula, which demonstrates the complete phenomenology of neutrino flavor-oscillations for 3 different neutrino species (flavors). Up until now, only models for just 2 flavors existed. The model is adjustable corresponding to variable neutrino mass differences and variable mixing parameters (PMNS angles) between the 3 flavors. Arbitrary oscillation patterns like those for solar neutrinos or atmospheric neutrinos can be simulated with any parameter settings (e.g. with the mixing angle 1-3 being zero or non-zero).

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Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Neutrinos

School Topics

Nature of science
Scientific inquiry and reasoning

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Published: October 3, 2011

Quarked!

The Quarked! project was conceived by Professor Alice Bean and a diverse team of collaborators at the University of Kansas in 2003 as an entertaining method of introducing the world of subatomic physics to kids and adults. (...) Now, Quarked! - Adventures in the Subatomic Universe brings subatomic physics to life through a multimedia project including an interactive website, a facilitated program for museums and schools, and an educational outreach program. (...) Targeted to kids ages 7-12 (and their families), the Quarked!

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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
Particle Physics and Society
Why Fundamental Research
People Behind the Science

School Topics

Nature of science
Scientific inquiry and reasoning
Matter
Structure of matter

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Published: September 19, 2011

Comics about Gravitational Waves

Nel 2016 viene annunciata la scoperta delle onde gravitazionali. Un anno dopo, i fisici registrano il primo segnale “multimessaggero” della storia della scienza, aprendo la strada ad una nuova branca della fisica: l’astronomia multimessaggera.

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

School Topics

Nature of science

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Published: February 7, 2011

ATLAS Inner Detector (Pixel Detector and Silicon Tracker)

This colorful 3D animation is an excerpt from the film "ATLAS-Episode II, The Particles Strike Back." Shot with a bug's eye view of the inside of the detector. The viewer is taken on a tour of the inner workings of the detector, seeing critical pieces of the detector and hearing short explanations of how each works. Running time : 2min 53 sec

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Technologies and Experiments
Detectors

School Topics

Mechanics
Energy (conservation), work and power

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Published: February 4, 2011

Journey to the Unimaginably Small

The narrorator takes us from a 1 mm column, down to the very smallest building blocks of matter to demonstrate just how incredibly small the things are that the Large Hadron Collider studies. See all video files here: http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1128123 Produced by: Mannmade Productions Director: Chris Mann 02:30 min. / 10 Sep 2008 / CERN Copyright http://www.mannmade.co.uk/

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Topics

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

School Topics

Measurements and uncertainties
Measurements
Matter
Structure of matter