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Notes From Task List

• What is Fundamental
• What is the world made of?
• What holds it together?
• How do we know any of this?
• How do we experiment with tiny particles?
• Any other parts you find interesting?

Particle Presentation Summaries

• Higgs Boson (Caroline)
• Neutron (George)
• Planck's Constant (Cynthia)
• Cosmic Rays (Shannon)
• Unstable Heavy Bayron (Eric)
• Gluon (Gabi)

Half-Life Lab

• Results/Data

Bubble Chamber Lab

• Bubble Chamber Lab Answers (Stanford)

BaBar Lab

• BaBar Lab Answers

OnScreen Particle Physics Lab

• OnScreen Particle Physics Lab (Stanford)

Z Boson Mass

• Z Boson Mass Lab Answers (Stanford)

Cosmic Rays Lab

• Cosmic Rays Lab

AP Physics C Particles Project Wiki Page for Stanford Linear Accelerator

Team members

• Eric B.
• Shannon C.
• Gabi C.
• Caroline F.
• Cynthia M.
• George N.

Task list

1. Homework reading assignments
   1. Particle Adventure Readings:
      1. What is fundamental--Shannon
      2. What is the world made of--George
      3. What holds it together--Eric
      4. How do we know any of this?--Gabi
      5. How do we experiment with tiny particles?--Caroline
      6. Any other parts you find interesting--Cynthia
   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 SLAC
4. Presentations
   1. Neutrons - George
   2. Cosmic rays - SHANNON CHEN
   3. Planck's constant--Cynthia
   4. Heavy baryons--Eric
   5. Gluons--Gabi The Killer Video
   6. Higgs boson--Caroline
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 Projects
   1. Z Boson mass
   2. Cosmic rays

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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