Special edition of the Particle Physics Workshop aimed at secondary education teachers

This year, 160 high school students from 111 centres in 55 Catalan towns participate in the Particle Physics Workshop.
This year, 160 high school students from 111 centres in 55 Catalan towns participate in the Particle Physics Workshop.
(21/03/2014)

The increasing number of high school students who ask for help to focus their research work on particle physics made the University of Barcelona organise the Particle Physics Workshop aimed at secondary education teachers. It takes place on Friday 21 March in the Aula Magna at the Faculty of Physics.

This year, 160 high school students from 111 centres in 55 Catalan towns participate in the Particle Physics Workshop.
This year, 160 high school students from 111 centres in 55 Catalan towns participate in the Particle Physics Workshop.
21/03/2014

The increasing number of high school students who ask for help to focus their research work on particle physics made the University of Barcelona organise the Particle Physics Workshop aimed at secondary education teachers. It takes place on Friday 21 March in the Aula Magna at the Faculty of Physics.

The activity, arranged by the Group on Experimental Particle Physics of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB) and the Institute of Education Sciences (ICE-UB), enables teachers to go deeper into this field, know detection techniques and reflect on the relationship between particle physics and society.

 

The Particle Physics Workshop, an activity aimed at highly motivated students

Moreover, the annual Particle Physics Workshop, an activity aimed at high school students which is part of the international science dissemination project Hands on Particle Physics, happens on 27 March and 2 April,. This year, 160 high school students from 111 centres in 55 Catalan towns participate in it.

The activity includes two sessions. Students will be able to analysed data obtained by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at the headquarters of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in Geneva (Switzerland), and share the results with participating centres in other countries. The workshops begins at 9.30 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m.

This international initiative has been organised for ten years. Four hundred universities and research centres from 40 countries participate in it. Dresden University of Technology and the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) —a network of scientists, informal science educators and communication specialists from member countries of CERN— coordinate it. This year, there are more than 10,000 students from all over the world registered.

 

UB research at CERN

The Group on Experimental Particle Physics of ICCUB participate in the LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment), one of the four main detectors that studies the collisions generated by the LHC. The results obtained from this and other experiment developed at this laboratory have already had an important impact on questions such as the detection of asymmetries between matter and antimatter or the research on the existence of Higgs boson.