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Particle physics resource guide: booklets, leaflets and factsheets
A list of useful booklets, leaflets and factsheets as particle physics teaching resources.
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TITLE / DESCRIPTION
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16+
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Applying the Accelerator
A set of four one-page leaflets describing various applications of accelerators. The individual leaflets have the following self-explanatory titles: "Medical Applications of Accelerators", "Research Applications of Accelerators", "Industrial Applications of Accelerators" and "Future Applications of Accelerators".
CERN Press Office, Price Band: A
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1995
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16+
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Big Bang Science: Exploring the Origins of Matter
An easy to understand booklet containing a clear explanation of the theories which drive modern particle physics research, and descriptions of both current and future experiments at CERN. (Also available on the Web (link opens in a new window)|)
STFC, Price Band: A
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16+
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CERN Annual Report: Volume 1
Written with a general scientific audience in mind, this is an illustrated, non-technical account of the highlights of the year at CERN.
CERN Press Office, Price Band: A
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16+
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CERN: The Laboratory and it's Activities
This series of leaflets describes the CERN Laboratory or one of its activities. The current list of titles in the series is:
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CERN: The World's Leading Particle Physics Research Laboratory
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LEP: The Large Electron Positron Collider
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LHC: The Large Hadron Collider
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LHCb: Holding a Mirror to Physics
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ALICE: A Large Ion Collider
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CMS: The Compact Muon Solenoid
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ATLAS: An Experiment at the Discovery Frontier
CERN Press Office, Price Band: A
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2002
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16+
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A Guide to Visiting CERN from the UK
A mini travel guide to CERN specifically designed with teachers and other group organisers in mind.
There is a more detailed version on the CERN Visits website at
page about the General Information for visits (link opens in a new window)
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STFC, Price Band: A
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16+
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The Large Hadron Collider: The Search for the Origin of the Universe
This colourful glossy booklet contains a concise summary of known facts in particle physics and describes the unanswered theoretical questions which provide the motivation for building the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
STFC, Price Band: A
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1996
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16+
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Particle Physics Summary Sheets
Three glossy and colourful double-sided A4 sheets which provide a concise summary of important points about quarks and leptons, forces, particle accelerators, particle detectors, and particle physics and the big bang. A new edition was produced in 2001, bringing the particle story up to date. (Also available on the Web (link opens in a new window)|)
Royal Holloway, University of London, Price Band: A * |
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16+
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Particle Physics with Bubble Chamber Photographs
A good introduction to bubble chamber photographs for A-level students. This 17-page booklet begins with a brief introduction to the basic concepts of particle accelerators, bubble chambers and conservation laws in particle physics. It then clearly explains and illustrates which important features to look for when analysing bubble chamber photographs, and what these represent.
Dr Christine Sutton, Price Band: A
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16+
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Probing Particles
This well designed leaflet provides a clear introduction to the machines, the theory and the experiments involved in the study of particle physics.
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Price Band: A
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2001
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14+
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The World of Particles by Brian Southworth & Georges Boixader (revised by Georges Boixader, James Gillies, Frank Close, and Rita van Peteghem)
This colourful, imaginative and very accessible cartoon-strip booklet successfully describes elementary particles and the work of CERN.
STFC, Price Band: A
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16+
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World Wide Web - Invented at CERN
A leaflet describing the World Wide Web, and explaining how and why it was invented at CERN.
CERN Press Office, Price Band: A
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Page last updated: 29 January 2010
by Zahra Mogul
