|
http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/particle/Exp/ - The Edinburgh University Particle Physics Experiments (PPE) group. Particle experiments using Linear / Circular Accelerators at SLAC and at CERN.
http://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/archiv/HST2000/teaching/expt/sascha/sascha.htm - High School Teachers at CERN. Particle Physics Experiments for School. When teaching particle physics the main problem is the difficulty of doing lots of experiments, especially hands-on experiments. Two kinds of particle experiments are proposed; standard experiments with standard equipment used at school normally, and some self-made experiments that use available or cheap materials.
http://ltp.web.psi.ch/ - Particle Physics: A brief review and an outline of PSI's activities in this field. The goal of particle physics experiments is to search for and examine the basic constituents of matter and to determine the fundamental laws of physics. The present knowledge is summarised by the Standard Model, a field theory which consistently describes the known fundamental particles and their interactions at presently available energies of a few hundred GeV. Only gravity needs still to be included. In recent years strong connections to cosmology have been developed giving important constraints and hints for physics beyond the Standard Model (e.g. missing dark matter, baryon-antibaryon asymmetry). It is generally believed that the Standard Model is only a 'low-energy' effective theory which may have to be modified at TeV energies. Various scenarios have been discussed how these modifications extend to the Planck scale where gravity cannot be neglected anymore; the upcoming experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will provide tests of these ideas.
Editor: Haselhurst
|