A Bedtime Primer on Physics - Whimsical approach to particle physics, with links for children and adults alike (from Jefferson Lab)

European Particle Physics Outreach Group (from CERN)

Fermilab Homepage - Links to general infomration, experiments and projects (Fermilab at Work), particle physics (inquiring minds), resources for students (education) and more

Lists of Links:
Particle Physics - (from the American Physical Society)
Particle Physics Education Sites - (from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

The Particle Adventure - A simple, thorough explanation of the world of particle physics. If you haven't yet gone through this Website, get to it!

Particle Detector BriefBook - Encyclopedic form of words associated with particle physics; also published as a book

Reflections on Matter - A humorous tutorial on particle physics (French and English)

Searching for the Building Blocks of Matter - Overview of how the work of experimental particle physicists put the Standard Model together, piece by piece (from Fermilab)

Smallest Particles, Biggest Machine - Series of slides for students (from Royal Holloway University of London)

Accelerators

Event Simulator - Simulation of particles in detectors; change energy and magnetic field (Events reflect actual percentages of type.)

The Fermilab Accelerator Chain - Interactive tour showing location and picture of each of the five accelerators at Femilab

Particle Accelerator - Simple demo to accelerate a charged particle by flipping batteries

Also, check out resources in general information.

Detectors

Anatomy of a Detector - Virtual reality tool shows different parts of the CDF detector and how they are used to display the debris from a collision. (Joe Boudreau, a physicist in the CDF collaboration)

ATLAS and CMS Experiment Education Pages - Artists' sketches; movie, photos, descriptions of how different particles are detected and more; download a CMS brochure.

BaBar Particle Physics Teaching Package - A tutorial on relativity and particles with events to analyze

Bubble Chamber - An interactive tutorial to identify particles in old bubble chamber photos

Cloud Chamber Photograph - Track of positron, first evidence of antimatter (from LBNL Image Library)

How to Build a Cloud Chamber - Directions including troubleshooting

DELPHI Events - Rotate 3-D detector with color-coded tracks with your mouse. Most events are identified; some aren't. Need WIRED plug-in.

Fermilab Detectors: CDF Public Page - DZero Public Page

Hands-on CERN - Interactive displays of a 1000 particle events from DELPHI. You can investigate various relationships such as branching ratios, strong coupling constant. Animated 3-D collisions.

The OPAL Detector - Information on this LEP experiment and detector (from CERN)

OPAL Events - 100 most recent events

Photomultiplier Tube Tutorial - Goes through the multiplication effect in PMTs (based on work by a QuarkNet teacher) For Teachers - For Students

Also, check out resources in general information.

The Fermilab Virtual Tour - Photos of accelerators and detectors with figure captions

Fermilabyrinth - Online versions of exhibits at the Lederman Science Center

Free sample applets; charged particles in electric and magnetic fields (by Mark Sutherland)

OnScreen Particle Physics - Resources for OnScreen users (Use OnScreen Particle Physics software to experiment with particles and magnetic fields.)

Particle Data Book - Specifications for accelerators and detectors

SLAC's Virtual Visitor Center - Accelerator - Description of how some accelerators and detectors work

Also, check out resources in general information.

Energy-Momentum Relationship

Einstein on E = mc² - Einstein explains the equivalence of rnergy and matter

Energy-Momentum Formula - A form of the relationship between E, P and M (though not exactly the way a particle physicist would normally write it) as well as general arguments (from Physics 252 by Michael Fowler, University of Virginia)

Mass and Energy - The relationship between mass and energy from relativity and with some of the mathematics (from Physics 252 by Michael Fowler, University of Virginia)

Pennies! - Graphs Reveal the Structure of Matter - An application of mass reconstruction to everyday items (by Frank Lipinski, Fermilab Fellowship and QuarkNet Teacher)

Also, check out resources in general information.

Event Pictures

BaBar Particle Physics Teaching Package - Tutorial on relativity and particles; events to analyze

Coulomb Force - Simulation of shooting a proton at + or - charges

Dynamic histrogram - Histogram Applet; using their data or yours, adjust the bins for analysis. (by the Shodor Educational Foundation, Inc.)

Event Simulator - Simulation of particles in detectors; change energy and magnetic field (Events reflect actual percentages of type.)

Identifying Interesting Particle Physics Events at LEP - Tutorial and challenge on each type of event; can do statistics of ratios of types of events on 1000 events (OPAL events by Terry Wyatt, CERN)

Real-Time Histogram - Shockwave histogram; change the binning.

Also, check out resources in general information.

Special Relativity

Assess Your STR Knowledge - Review questions and problems

Cosmic Rays - General introduction to cosmic rays (from SLAC)

On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies - Einstein's original paper on STR in English translation (Go get 'em, tiger!)

Special Relativity Equations - "Formula sheet" of some of the more important equations of relativity

Also, check out resources in general information.

Standard Model

The Higgs Boson - Where does mass come from? . . . the Higgs mechanism which physicists hope to confirm and study in Fermilab's Run II or Run I of the LHC. General information (from Hampton University)

The Official String Theory Web Site - Perhaps the most promising theoretical framework we have for understanding why matter behaves as it does. Find out more here.

The Standard Model Chart - An excellent visual summary of the Standard Model

What's a Neutrino? - Explanation of neutrinos and a brief history of neutrino physics from Pauli's original hypothesis in 1931 to the present (University of California, Irvine)

Also, check out resources in general information.