This textbook is part of a four-volume series of teaching material on particle physics developed by the German...
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This talk raises and addresses the question of why humans perform fundamental research, by noting the fundamental questions our species (and perhaps other species) have raised thrughout time. It then gives a snap history of how we have gone about trying to address these questions from early...
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Where do we live ? What are we made of ? Why are we here ? When did it all start and when is the end ? A key for possible answers to these vital questions of life may lie in a captivating connection of an infinitesimally small and an immensely big. Physicists are persistently banging on the door...
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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.
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This material was used for the 3rd annual CERN @Montreux Physics of Music / Music of Physics Workshop. The workshops are held every year in the Petit Casino during the Montreux Jazz Festival. These are from July, 2015.
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This talk describes the design and development strategies for implementing the ATLAS Public Web pages. It was given at CHEP 2015 in Okinawa, Japan, and targets both Science Communicators and Web Developers.
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This talk was given by request of the CERN Council for the celebration ceremony of the 60th anniversary of the Council. It was complemented by talks given by theorists, users, young researchers, retired researchers, etc. The goal is to remind the council of the importance of Education and...
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This is a talk given at ICHEP 2014 in Valencia, Spain. The goal is to inform other science communicators of the content, platforms, and strategy supporting the Outreach and Education project of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN. Some of the examples and lessons learned can be helpful for others....
Video about the ALICE experiment at LHC, done in 2006, during the construction and installation phase of the experiment. It describes the experiment and its quest for the quark gluon plasma, the primordial state of matter which existed fractions of a second after the big bang and recreated by...
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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...
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Let's Begin…
In 2012, scientists at CERN discovered evidence of the Higgs boson. The what? The Higgs boson is one of two types of fundamental particles and is a particular game-changer in the field of particle physics, proving how particles gain mass. Using the Socratic method, CERN ...
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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...
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Buried about 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 very high energies and then collides them at four different places....
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Buried about 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 very high energies and then collides them at four different places....
Au LHC, le grand collisionneur de particules du Cern, les physiciens ont observé une nouvelle
particule qui ressemble de près au boson de Higgs tant attendu !
Cette découverte est le fruit de collaborations internationales à très grande échelle : Atlas et
CMS. Les deux...
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Abstract. The newfound ability of Social Media to transform public communication back to a conversational nature provides HEP with a powerful tool for Outreach and Communication. By far, the most effective component of nearly any visit or public event is that fact that the...
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Abstract. The newfound ability of Social Media to transform public communication back to a conversational nature provides HEP with a powerful tool for Outreach and Communication. By far, the most effective component of nearly any visit or public event is that fact that the...
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Buried about 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 very high energies and then collides them at four different places. ...
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Buried about 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 very high energies and then collides them at four different places. ...
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Konrad Jende
This presentation was given at the 1st World Conference on Physics Education (WCPE) in Istanbul (Turkey) in July 2012. We describe the methodology employed for the IPPOG International Masterclasses, summarizing the hands-on activities physics analyses. We discuss the results of the evaluations...
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ATLAS Outreach
The ATLAS collaboration is made up of about 3000 contributors who have been working together across the world for almost 20 years. Peter Jenni, Former Spokesperson, ex-officio of the ATLAS Experiment is interviewed by ATLAS colleague Steven Goldfarb (U of Michigan, USA) to find out how it all...
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ATLAS Outreach
An interview with Ana Henriques Correia, Tile Calorimeter System Project Leader, ATLAS Experiment at CERN by ATLAS colleague Steven Goldfarb (U of Michigan, U.S.A.). The ATLAS detector is built of many different components, each designed to measure properties of specific types of...
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LHC Communications Germany
This exhibition is based on the Weltmaschine exhibition that the community of German nuclear and particle physicists, supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, hosted in Berlin in the year 2008. Its exhibits inform visitors about CERN and the LHC, the world of...
Markus Friedl
For the project grenzgenial we developed this exhibit, which allows to interactively adjust the energy of the LHC. Displays inform about the current speed and energy of the protons, animations show the movement of the particles.
This model illustrates in a scientificly correct way...
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Steven Goldfarb
As with any fundamental scientific endeavour, the true and enduring impact of the LHC physics program will not be measured in our lifetime. Rather, generations of future achievements will follow from the combination of scientific knowledge and methods born from the research. The unprecedented...
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US LHC Communications
1-page (8 1/2in x 11in) fact sheet. Provides a short introduction to the US contribution to computing including the tier system and computing grid world-wide. Includes a bullet point list of facts on the US LHC computing centers and the Open Science Grid.
US LHC computing...
Michael Hoch, Laurenz Widhalm
The movie is to be regarded as "proof of concept" - it features footage filmed in the LHC tunnel and at CMS with a simple pocket 3D camera (Fujifilm Real 3D W1), and some animations done with Adobe Effects.
It exists in several versions, differing in length (4-15 minutes) and the intro....
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Monica Pepe Altarell
A presentation about CERN and LHCb designed to be given by members of the LHCb collaboration to school classes of 15-17 year olds. In French. Made by LHCb physicist Monica Pepe-Altarelli.
This 65 slide presentation gives an overview of the Large Hadron Collider, particle physics and the...
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Robert Cousins
A presentation given by UCLA Professor Robert Cousins, presenting the goals of revolutionizing elementary particle physics and the implications for our understanding of the Big Bang and dark matter.
Audience: Students and faculty of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
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ATLAS Outreach
The ATLAS detector on the LHC will give us more and more data on particle collisions than has ever before been collected. Out of all of this data collected how do ATLAS scientists select the data that is really important to them? In this interview by ATLAS's Steven Goldfarb (U Michigan), Chris...
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ATLAS Outreach
This interview of Dario Barberis, Computing Coordinator for ATLAS on the LHC at CERN is conducted by ATLAS colleague Steven Goldfarb, (U of Michigan, USA). Subjects covered in this interview include:
a. a brief description of how much data is collected, how much data is stored as a...
Ivan Melo
International Particle Physics Masterclasses (MC) have become a phenomenon. 8000 high school students from 22 countries evaluate real LHC data at 99 universities across the world every year.
From my point of view it is an extremely successful event. However, it is only a one day thing. We...
Stefano Mersi
A short presentation showing the relation between mass, energy, momentum and speed for relativistic and ultra-relativistic particles.
It uses as an example the CERN accelerator complex (for massive particles at different speeds) and the photon
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Mike Paterson
Colliding Particles is a series of films following just one of the teams of physicists involved in the research at the LHC. The project documents their work at the frontiers of particle physics, exploring the human stories behind the research and investigating the workings of the scientific...
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CMS Outreach
A color animation of the high-energy collisions at 7 TeV on the 30th of March in the CMS detector. Run 132440 - Even 4285681 Produced by the CMS team. Files of animation of detector with collisions also included.
Duration: 25 seconds
Copyright CERN
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Yves Sirois
A 51 slide presentation in French for a general audience. Delivered at the "Cité des Sciences" in Paris, "Rencontres du Ciel et de l'Espace," November, 2010
This presentation covers the following topics:
-The LHC
--what it is
--what it looks like
--where it is...
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CERN Multi-Media
This animation provides a step-by-step explanation of how the Large Hadron Collider works and what happens to the particles within it. This explanation includes basic concepts of the reason for the LHC's shape, its parts, the use of magnets and its super cooling system. The animation concludes...
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CERN Multi-Media
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/...
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CERN Multi-Media
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...
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ATLAS Outreach
Produced by and presented courtesy of Seed Magazine
In Seed's first exclusive short film, science communicator Alom Shaha travels underground and behind the scenes to probe the cavernous Large Hadron Collider at CERN. His tour offers a glimpse into the exciting preparations afoot...
ATLAS Outreach
A point and click interactive. User may point and click parts of the detector to retrieve the name and description of selected part.
To see this video on the ATLAS website: http://www.atlas.ch/multimedia/#zooming-into-atlas...
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CERN Press Office
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...
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CERN Press Office
A two-page A4/double sided color brochure presenting the largest and the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which started up in 2008. Its role, characteristics, technologies, etc. are explained for the general public.
Hard copies can be...
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ATLAS Outreach
A simulated event. September 10, 2008 - The ATLAS detector lit up as a flood of particles traversed the detector when the beam was occasionally directed at a target near ATLAS. This allowed ATLAS physicists to study how well the various components of the detector were functioning in preparation...
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ATLAS Outreach
This animation shows a fall to Earth, aerial view of Switzerland, the LHC ring, CERN, diving underground to the ATLAS pit, and finally a layered view of the detector.
Running time 46 seconds
See video and all files here on the ATLAS website: ...
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CERN Multi-Media
The UK says Go LHC GO! Science and Technology
Produced by: Mannmade Productions
Director: Chris Mann
12:50 min. / 23 September 2008 / Mannmade Productions Copyright
http://www.mannmade.co.uk/
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