Accelerator and Particle Physics Education at A-Level - APPEAL

Europe/Zurich
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?”
    • 1
      Arrival and coffee/tea
    • 2
      Welcome and Introduction
    • 3
      Introduction to particle physics - Ken Peach
      Slides
    • 11:10
      Coffee/tea
    • 4
      Introduction to particle accelerators - Nicolas Delerue
      Slides
    • 5
      Student Funding at the University of Oxford and beyond - Alice Wilby
      Slides
    • 12:55
      Buffet lunch
    • 13:10
      Walk to Merton college
    • 6
      Visit of Merton college
    • 14:10
      Walk back to Physics
    • 7
      Experimental methods in particle physics: How to get a meaningful result out of a particle physics detector - Emmanuel Tsesmelis
      Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee/tea
    • 8
      Applications of particle accelerator outside particle physics - Suzie Sheehy
      Slides
    • 9
      Presentation of scientific equipment related to particle accelerators and detectors
    • 10
      Small group activity: A-level problem sets related to accelerator or particle physics
    • 11
      Departure