References & Links
Resource material for teachers and students on particle physics.
Resources
- CERN – European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva, Switzerland
- FNAL – Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
- SLAC – Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA, USA
- KEK – High Energy Research Accelerator Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
- BNL – Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
- DESY – Deutches Elektronen Synchrotron Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany
- ANL – Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
- LNF – Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
- TRIUMF – TRI-University Meson Facility, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- IHEP – Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
- JINR – Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
- IHEP – Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
- LBNL – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- JLAB – Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA, USA
Some Particle Physics Resources for the General Public
- Symmetry Magazine, a joint Fermilab/SLAC publication
- CERN Courier, an international journal of high energy physics
- Interactions.org, news from the world’s particle physics laboratories
- Popular Science articles on particle physics
Particle Physics References for Teachers
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.
- TEACHER RESOURCES
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.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsmBMuTFdkA
Particle Physics References for Students
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.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsmBMuTFdkA