Here are some interesting websites, mainly about particle physics.
Introductions to Particle Physics
Major Particle Physics Labs and Detectors
Related Topics
Other interesting sites
"Hands on" Particle Physics
The lists are by no means exhaustive, but are the result of some knowledge coupled with occasional "surfing". They all display properly with the latest version of Netscape running on a PC, but other than that there are no guarantees that they will download properly.
The level of knowledge required varies from site to
site. While some are aimed at the real beginner, others are more suitable for
those who have already studied some particle physics.
Introductions to Particle
Physics Particle Physics UK Big Bang Science The Particle Adventure SLAC Virtual Visitor Center All about neutrinos High-energy physics made
painless Of interest to schools
.... Events in DELPHI Hands on CERN Identifying events at LEP Making top quark data accessible
... Seeing particles Major Particle
Physics Labs and Detectors CERN - Europe's main centre for particle
physics The ATLAS detector The CMS detector The LHCb detector Welcome to the DELPHI experiment The OPAL detector Learning physics from ALEPH
events Physics at Fermilab DESY laboratory, Hamburg The H1 experiment at HERA The ZEUS experiment at
HERA BaBar and the Missing Antimatter Gran Sasso Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Neutrino experiments The Official String Theory
Website Diamond Synchrotron Light Source COSMOS - National Cosmology
Supercomputer About ISIS Microworlds Astronomy Picture of the Day The Electronic Nobel
Museum
http://www.particlephysics.ac.uk/
The starting place to give the web surfer access to various
particle physics sites. Look here, for example, for the UK universities that
work in particle physics, which experiments they work on - and who can give
talks on particle physics. Also featuring regular news items, "what's on" in
particle physics, and a growing library of images under "Picture of the
Week".
http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/pub/bigbang/part1.html
PPARC’s booklet introducing particle physics, especially at
CERN and its Large Electron Positron collider (LEP).
http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/lbl/particleadventure/
Learn about basic particle physics
in an interactive "Particle Adventure", a web-site from the Contemporary Physics
Education Project (CPEP), which is mirrored in Durham. See http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/lbl/particleadventure/other/education/ for classroom activities and http://www.cpepweb.org/ for more
information about the CPEP. Also links to sites (not mirrored) about Plasma
Physics and Fusion and about Nuclear Science.
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/
An excellent site from the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center in California, home to the 2-mile long linear electron accelerator. There
is a lot of good information here.
http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/neutrinos/aneut.html
An informative guide to the
history of neutrinos and the various puzzles surrounding them.
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/painless/htmls/index.html
Articles from Ferminews - the
newsletter of Fermilab - which aim to explain ideas in particle physics in
everyday language.
http://www.hep.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk/hep/schools/schools.html
Goodies about particle physics, including a "slide show"
introduction to particle physics.
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/Documents/ParticleDemos/DelphiIntro/index.html
An introduction to interpreting events in one of the four LEP
detectors at CERN. If you can run Java you can also try rotating and zooming
events at http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/WIRED/.
http://hands-on-cern.physto.se/
For those with Java, the
chance to rotate and zoom real events from the DELPHI detector. Click on the
event display, read the instructions and select the detector components. Useful
in conjunction with the above two sites.
http://hepwww.ph.man.ac.uk/~wyatt/events/
A self-guided tutorial aimed at sixth-formers which
explains how to understand event pictures from the OPAL detector at LEP,
together with a five-part challenge (with the answers!).
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/samplers/hsphys/activities/top_quark_intro.html
Use conservation of momentum to calculate
the mass of the top quark, complete with pages for students and pages for
teachers.
http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/user/watkins/seeweb/BubbleChamber.htm
Exercises aimed
at schools, based on the interpretation of photographs of particle tracks in
bubble chambers.
http://www.cern.ch/Public/
Home of particle physics in Europe and the invention of the World Wide
Web. The site includes general information about particle physics, links to
experiments, and some information for teachers at http://microcosm.web.cern.ch/Microcosm/teachers/home. Also keep a look out for up-coming webcasts, and take a look
at the antimatter site, http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/
http://atlas.ch
The biggest of the detectors being built
for CERN's next accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
http://cms.cern.ch
The smaller "general purpose detector"
being buit for LHC. ("C" is for compact!).
http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/
The experiment at the LHC that may help
us understand why we aren't made from antimatter.
http://www.cern.ch/Delphi/Welcome.html
More detailed information on the DELPHI detector, with some good
event pictures for the more advanced student (under "About DELPHI - DELPHI
transparencies").
http://www.cern.ch/Opal/tour/detector.html
More detailed information about OPAL - for the seriously
interested. There is also good tutorial on typical events in OPAL, with pictures
(in both GIF and Postscript formats) - again for the keener enthusiast - at
http://www.cern.ch/Opal/events/opalpics.html.
http://aleph.web.cern.ch/aleph/educ/Welcome.html
More detailed information about one of the four LEP
detectors at CERN, and events therein, for the more advanced student. Needs a
Postscript viewer to view events. However you can find events in GIF format at
http://aleph.web.cern.ch/aleph/dali/.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/physics/index.html
An introduction to aspects of particle physics from
Fermilab in the US.
http://www.desy.de/html/home/index.html
The home of HERA, the world’s only electron-proton collider.
The links on this page take you mainly to sites in English, but the navigation
bar at the top at present takes you to German pages.
http://www-h1.desy.de/
An
introduction to one of the major experiments on the HERA collider at DESY,
including a "tour" and event displays.
http://www-zeus.desy.de/
The second of the two major experiments investigating electron-proton
collisions at DESY.
http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/BaBarpub/
An introduction to the BaBar experiment and its search for
subtle differences beteen matter and antimatter.
http://www.lngs.infn.it/
Particle physics underground, without accelerators, at an
international laboratory in Italy, under the Gran Sasso Massif.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/
This laboratory is deep underground in Canada and houses
the SNO apparatus designed to detect neutrinos from the Sun.
http://neutrinooscillation.org/
A starting point for anyone who wants to
know about the wide variety of experiments with neutrinos
http://www.superstringtheory.com/
So what is string theory? Find out at this excellent site
by the physicist-wife of one of the pioneers of string theory.
http://www.diamond.ac.uk/default.htm
The recently-opened synchrotron light source in South Oxfordshire.
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public
This gives access to an excellent introduction to cosmology,
set up by cosmologists at Cambridge. With good illustrations.
http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/aboutIsis/index.htm
An introduction to the world's
"brightest" pulsed neutron and muon source at the UK's Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory.
http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/
An interactive tour of materials research at the Advanced Light
Source at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
A
different picture each day, with a brief explanation.
http://www.nobel.se/
All about all the Nobel prizes, from 1901 to the
present day, including videos of the Nobel lectures for the most recent
awards.