Category: Audience:University Level
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International Cosmic Day, An Astroparticle Physics Outreach Event for High-School Students
International Cosmic Day is an annual event bringing together young people, teachers, and scientists around astroparticle physics. This day is dedicated to cosmic rays through discussions, creative competitions, experiments, and much more.
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CERN Courrier
CERN Courier is a magazine available both online and in print that showcases the most recent advancements in particle physics and related disciplines from around the globe. Exclusive news and feature articles cover the latest research breakthroughs and project developments, offering readers unique insights into advancing scientific knowledge.
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CERN Experiments Open Data
The CERN Open Data portal acts as a online hub for sharing data generated by experiments conducted at CERN. It includes accompanying software and documentation needed to understand and analyze the data. Some of the experiments also propose educational tutos and exercises. The portal adheres to established global standards in data preservation and Open Science:…
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IceCube Education & Outreach Activities
IceCube engages a local, national, and international audience through public outreach events like science festivals and educational game sessions, but also through educational programs during masterclasses and after school programs. They have also developed materials like comics or VR games, partnered with artists, and launched a citizen science project: Name That Neutrino.
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ACHEP conference in Morocco and Moroccan High Energy Physics or outreach activities
2023 marks the first edition of the African Conference on High Energy Physics which hosted dedicated outreach events. Its primary goal was to encourage young African researchers and HEP experts to express and discuss new ideas and foster new inter-African collaborations.
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Web-based Educational Tool for ATLAS as part of the Czech Particle Physics Project
The two modules were developed as part of a summer student project, both featuring an introduction page and a Interactive web application. The first module takes students through the process of finding an Axion-Like Particle (ALP) using the ATLAS-Forward Proton (AFP) detector. The second shows students how to determine the mass of the Higgs boson…
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FeynGame : Acquiring Feynman diagrams in a playful way
FeynGame is a Java-based graphical tool for drawing Feynman diagrams which can be exported in any standard image format, or as EPS. FeynGame aims to be educational by allowing users to verify the validity of Feynman diagrams. Additionally, it offers a game where players must link a specific set of initial and final states through…
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Quarktastic Instagram Account
Quarktastic is an istagram account that makes use of the fact that everyone is connected to social media at least a few hours per day. It is more used than traditonnal blogging and enable many formats. LIVEs are very interactive and impromptu, vide of life at CERN easily go viral, and fun contents like meme…
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Future Collider Experiment: an educational tool for graduate students
The Future Collider Experiment (FCE) app is a platform-agnostic analysis tool. It provides a sneak peek into the particle physics processes that will become available at the Future Circular Collider (FCC) in a user-friendly environment. A typical workshop can take the format of two research groups (IDEA and CLD), studying FCC-ee collisions at the four…
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Cosmic Piano: analysing the sound of the Universe
The Cosmic Piano is an innovative outreach tool designed to detect muons from air showers produced by cosmic rays colliding with the atmosphere. It consists of scintillator-based modules with avalanche photodiodes (APD) readout, which produce a musical note and a flash of light whenever a muon passes through one of them and triggers its electronics.…