Author: Build your own particle Detector
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Solvay DIY Experiments Videos
DIY Experiments Videos You can find here the entire collection of short videos published on social media as part of the CERN-Solvay Education Programme. They connect a piece of CERN’s science or technology to an experiment you can easily perform at home or at school. Discover your inner scientist through these DIY experiments: there nothing
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Tinkering Activity: Keeping the LHC cool
Develop scientific reasoning and creative problem-solving skills through tinkering, while learning about thermal insulation and how the LHC is kept at extremely low temperatures.
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A particularly wavy matter
Delve into the physics of everyday waves, discover the strange wave-particle duality of quantum objects, and discuss how radiofrequency cavities rely on waves to accelerate particles at the heart of the LHC
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Particle Twister
Learn about the Standard Model by playing a particle physics version of the game of Twister!
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Particle Physics Board Game
A card game designed to help you familiarize yourself with the Standard Model of particle physics.
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The LHCb activity book
Discover the LHCb experiment and the physics of matter and antimatter with this fun activity book for kids of all ages.
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SOLVAY Online Physics Course
Videos about a scientific topic useful to CERN scientists and engineers in 20 to 30 minutes.
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Adventures at low temperatures #2: It is just a phase
Explore the transitions between different phases of matter, and how they can help us draw heat away from the LHC.
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Adventures at low temperatures #1: Keeping it cool
Investigate why the LHC has to be kept at a temperature colder than outer space, and how it manages to stay at such a cold temperature.
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Symmetry, in theory
Investigate the symmetries of simple geometric shapes, and use them as a stepping stone to grasp the symmetries of the laws of physics which govern the Universe.