FermiLab

AP Physics C Particles Project Wiki Page for FermiLab

Our particle accelerator is more scenic than your particle accelerator.

Team member pages

• Tim B.
• Will H.
• Vail
• Nelly "Crazy Eyes Killa" K.
• Hannah S.
• Isaac Z.

Task list

1. Homework reading assignments
   1. Particle Adventure Readings:
      1. What is fundamental (Nelly "Crazy Eyes Killa" K.)
      2. What is the world made of (Hannah S.)
      3. What holds it together (Vail)
      4. How do we know any of this? (Tim B.)
      5. How do we experiment with tiny particles? (Isaac Z.)
      6. Any other parts you find interesting (Will H.)
   2. Basic experiments
   3. Particle Fireworks
      1. Table of Elementary Particles
      2. Generations of Elementary Particles
      3. Play with elementary particles
2. Homework questions
3. Notes from FermiLab
4. Presentations
5. Labs
   1. Radioactive decay Save this file to your local computer and run it from there, not from network! See lab writeup for details.
   2. Bubble chamber with tracks: Follow instructions at Bubble Chamber
   3. Collisions in 3D with the BaBar detector If you need to refer to the relativity material, work through all pages. If you want to skip this review, click ‘Display Index’ in the upper right corner of the screen and start with ‘Why bother with particle physics?’ Be sure you look at the detector display from a variety of angles and zooms and vary the magnetic field. Observe the effect of the field on each type of particle. Continue until you have found the K₀ lifetime and worked at least 5 event pictures from the 25 listed. Then complete the histogram activity.
   4. OnScreen Particle Physics
6. Group Project
   1. Z Boson mass
   2. Cosmic rays

need to see the results from these last two experiments

Resources

The Nobel Prize website is a valuable historical reference (probably because lots of the people who did this work won them). For a detailed look at high energy experiments, see FermiLab's exhibit . General information and links are on the course website, . Books (yes, actual books) are on reserve for your use in the SJS library. See especially .

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