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.

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.

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 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

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