Useful Links

General

CERN

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

-European Organization for Nuclear Research homepage, offering more information about the complex and all the experiments at the complex.

CERN Courier

http://cerncourier.com/cws/latest/cern

The CERN Courier offers articles about the happenings at CERN and in the high-energy particle field of physics. New issues are created every month.

(Check out the article in which Syracuse University has been mentioned! http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/32525)

University of Liverpool Outreach

http://hep.ph.liv.ac.uk/lhcb/html/outreach.html

The University of Liverpool, in the UK has an outreach website that offers a plethora of information regarding the VELO detectors located in the LHCb experiment.

Educational

Particle Adventure

http://particleadventure.org

-The Particle Data Group has set up this innovative website to present basic ideas of particle physics, the beginning of the universe and a multitude of other fun physics! It includes many illustrative features and applications, so why not take a particle adventure today?

QuarkNet

http://quarknet.fnal.gov/

-A site created by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, offering ideas and projects for teachers and students.

Contemporary Physics Education Project

http://www.cpepweb.org/

-A website offering instructive and explanatory activities for students. In particular, if one is looking for worksheets for the classroom on fundamental particle properties and interactions, this is excellent!

OnScreen Science

http://www.onscreen-sci.com/index.html

-A site offering software for interactive data analysis of particle accelerator events.