Accelerator and Particle Physics Education at A-Level - APPEAL
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University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Description
APPEAL - Accelerator and Particle Physics Education at A-Level
The University of Oxford is organising in collaboration with CERN a one-day school to give A-level teachers an opportunity to learn about the physics underlying the LHC.
This school will give basic information about particle accelerators and particle physics to Physics teachers who are not necessarily Physics specialists. Preference will be given to teachers coming from schools which usually send very few pupils to University.
The school will address questions such as “How does a particle accelerator work?” “What are the questions the LHC will answer?” “How does an experiment at the LHC work?” “What are the applications of particle accelerators in our daily lives?” and “What is the origin of the Universe and of matter?”
09:50
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10:05
Arrival and coffee/tea15m
10:05
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10:10
Welcome and Introduction5m
10:10
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11:10
Introduction to particle physics - Ken Peach1h
Slides
11:10
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11:25
Coffee/tea
15m
11:25
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12:25
Introduction to particle accelerators - Nicolas Delerue1h
Slides
12:25
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12:55
Student Funding at the University of Oxford and beyond - Alice Wilby30m
Slides
12:55
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13:10
Buffet lunch
15m
13:10
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13:35
Walk to Merton college
25m
13:35
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14:10
Visit of Merton college35m
14:10
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14:30
Walk back to Physics
20m
14:30
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15:30
Experimental methods in particle physics: How to get a meaningful result out of a particle physics detector - Emmanuel Tsesmelis1h
Slides
15:30
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15:45
Coffee/tea
15m
15:45
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16:45
Applications of particle accelerator outside particle physics - Suzie Sheehy1h
Slides
16:45
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17:05
Presentation of scientific equipment related to particle accelerators and detectors20m
17:05
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17:55
Small group activity: A-level problem sets related to accelerator or particle physics50m
