Useful Links

A collection of links to find out more about particle physics: 

  • Go on the Particle Adventure - an award winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators and particle detectors.
  • All About CERN  Find out about the world's largest centre for particle physics in Switzerland
  • Hands-on CERN - An interactive website from the European Centre for Particle Physics, CERN.  Learn how to analyse particle events and find out more about CERN experiments. 
  • Virtual ATLAS - photographer Peter McCready's 360 degree tour of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, complete with background construction sounds!
  • Symmetry online magazine - about particle physics and its connections to other aspects of life and science. Find out about the photographer with the world’s biggest portfolio of particle physics pictures, or how neutrons are being used in cancer therapy.
  • The search for the Higgs Boson is on, at the ATLAS experiment at CERN
  • The Higgs Boson - find out more about this elusive particle
  • Particle Physics Glossary (on Interactions.org)
  • Particle accelerators are not just found underground in Geneva, you can probably find one in a hospital near you. Particle Physics in Medicine.
  • All About Antimatter
  • Quantum Diaries -follow the lives of particle physicists online as they blog their way through the year.

News

    Events - Superstrings

    Superstrings is a fantastic musical lecture/performance that can be booked for student or adult audiences.  Professor Brian Foster, Head of Particle Physics at Oxford University, and Jack Liebeck, virtuoso violinist, take you on a tour of the universe, from Einstein's theory of relativity to modern particle physics.  Download the poster for more information. 

    Superstrings poster front

    Superstrings poster reverse