What is Fermilab? - Run II Newscasts - Analyze the Data - Online Resources - Site Outline
General Information
Acronyms of High-Energy Physics - (from Fermilab)
A Bedtime Primer on Physics - Whimsical approach to particle physics, with links for cildren and adults alike. (from Jefferson Lab)
European Particle Physics Outreach Group from CERN
Inquiring Minds - General information about particle physics (from Fermilab)
Lists of Links:
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High-Energy Physics Information Center - (from DOE, hosted at Fermilab)
- Particle Physics - (from the American Physical Society)
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Particle Physics Education Sites - (from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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.)
Smallest Particles, Biggest Machine - Series of slides for students (from Royal Holloway University of London)
Accelerator Resources
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
World of Beams - Tutorial on Basic accelerator concepts
Detector Resources
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; down load a CMS brochure.
Cloud Chamber Photograph - Track of positron, first evidence of antimatter (from LBNL Image Library)
Bizarre Stuff - How to make a Cloud Chamber.
How to Build a Cloud Chamber - Directions including troubleshooting
The OPAL Detector - Information on this LEP experiment and detector(from CERN)
Particle Detector BriefBook - Encyclopedic form of all words associated with particle physics; also published as book
Photomultiplier Tube Tutorial - Goes through the multiplication effect in PMTs (based on work by a QuarkNet teacher) For Teachers - For Students
Accelerator and Detector Resources
Accelerators - Information about CERN's accelerators and many of its experiments
Charged Particle Motion in E/M Field (by Fu-Kwun Hwang, National Taiwan Normal University)
The Fermilab Virtual Tour - Photos of accelerators and detectors with figure captions
Fermilabyrinth - Online versions of exhibits at the Lederman Science Center
Fun@learning.physics - 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
Searching for the Building Blocks of Matter - "Top: Accelerators" and "Top: Experiments," discuss both accelerators and detectors
SLAC's Virtual Visitor Center - Accelerator - Description of how some accelerators and detectors work
Energy-Momentum Relationship Resources
Einstein on E = mc2 - Einstein explains the Equivalence of Energy 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)
A Look at "psi -> rho pi" - "Note" for a research team; some nice mass plots and text for the adventurous (by Alex Samuel, Caltech)
Mass and Energy - How mass and energy are related in relativity and work out 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
Event Pictures Resources
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)
OnScreen Particle Physics - Online demo of injecting various particles into magnetic fields; calculate types of particles and lifetimes
Real-Time Histogram - Shockwave histogram; change the binning
Relativistic Lifetimes Resources
Cosmic Rays -
General introduction to cosmic rays (from SLAC)
Special Relativity:
What Time Is It? - Time dilation and its effects on cosmic
ray muon decay; links to
extensive notes on relativity (Physics 109 by Michael Fowler,
University of Virginia)
Standard Model Resources
The Higgs Boson - General information (from Hampton University)
Neutrino Mass - Discussion of recent experiments (Physical Review focus)
The Official String Theory Web Site
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)
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)