It provides the opportunity to relate A-level physics to fundamental research, and provides valuable access to practical experience and enthusiastic practitioners. Equipped with hints of what to look for, and using the type of interactive graphical display program that particle physicists use, students will have the task of recognising the W pairs amongst the quarks, leptons and Z bosons. The extremely mysterious Higgs particle. The BaBar experiment Students will be able to make their own measurements of particle tracks in the BaBar detector, to find neutral K mesons and measure their lifetime.
Numbers are limited.
A charge of 4 per head will be made to cover lunch, other refreshments, and materials. If numbers have to be limited then a refund will be sent.