About Particle Physics

Light from the accelerator at the DESY experiment, Hamburg, Germany. Copyright DESY

  

An introduction to particle physics – what’s it all about?

Go on the Particle Adventure – an award winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators and particle detectors.

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. 

Hands on Particle Physics - presentation introducing the basics of particle physics

Find out about The Structure of Matter -angular momentum, colour charge and much more explained.

A World of Atoms. An interactive website covering the Inside atoms and elements,Inside the nucleus, Splitting the atom and Back to the beginning.

Antimatter - register at the Antimatter Academy and find out what antimatter really is.

Particle Physics Glossary of Terms – wondering what a Z boson is?  Look it up here.

Virtual ATLAS - a 360 degree tour of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, complete with background construction sounds!