Globe Theatrics

Posted on 24/09/2010 by Herbi Dreiner

Herbi Dreiner and his students have taken their award-winning particle physics show to Cern, where it went down a storm.

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A surprise from the LHC already!

Posted on 22/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced a surprise yesterday which may dramatically change our ideas about quarks, gluons and protons.

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Physique? C’est tout le Français à moi

Posted on 22/09/2010 by Herbi Dreiner

In Bonn, we have been putting on a physics show for kids aged 10 and older for 8 years. It is a show full of exciting live experiments. The shows have typically covered most of classical physics and are supposed to be entertaining and of course also educational.

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Can you tell what it is yet?

Posted on 22/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.7 of Smashing Physics.

Detailed software models of particle physics detectors are an essential part of designing and using them. GEANT, the huge open-source software project developed for them, is also used for space and medical applications

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