Directory of Nuclear and Particle Physics Resources

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It should be fairly self-evident that this category is for educating about nuclear and particle physics, from a physics teacher's or student's point of view. Educational materials of all types are welcome, especially those which explain this somewhat opaque subject in a clear way. Sites related to 'issues' surrounding nuclear energy should probably be put in 'Society/Issues.'

Resources in This Category

• "God Particle" Possibly Discovered

  http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/higgs.html
  A report on one of the potentially most important discoveries of the new millennium, along with a summary of the standard model of particle physics.

• ABC's of Nuclear Science

  http://www.lbl.gov/abc/
  A comprehensive introduction to nuclear science-- antimatter, beta rays, cosmic radiation, radioactivity, the difference between fission and fusion, and the structure of the nucleus, for starters. Site also provides access to reference and teaching materials and experiments. From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. Uses frames.

• ATLAS Educational Information

  http://atlasexperiment.org/
  The ATLAS Experiment is to be carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator facility of the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Website is intended for people of all ages who are curious about fundamental particles and forces as well as about particle research.

• Atom Builder

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/
  A shockwave application that allows the user to add up and down quarks to a hydrogen nucleus to create a carbon nucleus.

• Classical & Statistical Thermodynamics & Mechanics Educational Sites

  http://tigger.uic.edu/~mansoori/Thermodynamics.Educational.Sites_html
  A collection of resources gathered by the Thermodynamics Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

• Contemporary (Nuclear) Physics Education Project (CPEP)

  http://www.cpepweb.org/
  A product of teachers, educators, and physicists located around the world. Charts, brochures, web features, and classroom activities present the current understanding of cosmic rays, radiation, particle physics, fission, fusion, and similar topics. Award-winning site.

• Cross Section

  http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/crosssection.html
  Introduction to cross section, an important concept in scattering.

• Fermilab Education

  http://ed.fnal.gov/
  For students, educators, visitors.

• Fermilabyrinth

  http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/labyrinth/
  A collection of Web-based games and activities to develop an understanding of the operations and experiments that take place in the Fermilab accelerator and detector halls and the scientific ideas they explore. Has a special section for teachers.

• Fusion Energy Education

  http://fusedweb.llnl.gov/
  Leads to several excellent resources which teach about fusion.

• Fusion: Physics of a Fundamental Energy Source:

  http://fusedweb.llnl.gov/CPEP/
  An introduction to the principles of fusion geared towards high school students. Posters in various languages also available for download or ordering.

• General Atomics Fusion Group Educational Home Page

  http://fusioned.gat.com/
  resources for teachers and students; links to a more technical GAT fusion site

• How Stuff Works: How Atom Smashers Work

  http://www.howstuffworks.com/atom-smasher.htm
  Tutorial with 28 color illustrations and photographs.

• Meltdown at Three Mile Island, a Documentary

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/three/
  Companion site to the PBS show of the same name. Covers "How a Nuclear Reactor Works" and "What Happened," showing the series of events that took place on March 28, 1979. Useful for a quick lesson about Three Mile Island. Also has teacher's guide to the show and a link for ordering the video. Requires Java-enabled browser.

• Nuclear Power

  http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Snuclear.htm
  Overviews the principles of nuclear fission and its use to generate power, why uranium can be fissioned, n/p ratio and delayed neutrons, moderators, also Chernobyl and 3-Mile Island.

• Nuclear Power Plant Demonstration

  http://www.ida.liu.se/~her/npp/demo.html
  Java applet of a basic nuclear power plant. Try to keep the reactor running safely under various failure scenarios.

• Nuclear Science and Technology and How It Influences Your Life

  http://www.aboutnuclear.org/
  Covers five major application fields: food irradiation, industry, medicine, space, and electricity.

• OnScreen Particle Physics

  http://www.onscreen-sci.com/
  A simulation for Mac and Windows 95/98/NT that allows even beginning students to experience what real particle physics experiments are like. Demo versions available for download.

• Perspective on Plasmas

  http://www.plasmas.org/
  Educational information on plasma applications including controlled fusion.

• Quantum Universe

  http://www.interactions.org/quantumuniverse/
  Extensive content on 21st century particle physics and the role of particle colliders.

• Reflections on Matter

  http://molaire1.perso.sfr.fr/e_plan.html
  Atoms to quarks, quantum physics, the big bang, and newer theories about matter.

• SLAC Visitor Center

  http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/
  Information provided by SLAC for informing the general public about particle physics.

• Tau Decay Physics

  http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLEO/CLEO3/cleo3/proposal/subsection3_3_3.html
  Summary of decay modes and their probabilities.

• The Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience (IPPEX)

  http://ippex.pppl.gov/
  The site "allows students and teachers to participate remotely in scientific research at [America's] largest fusion energy laboratory." Requires Java-capable browser and Shockwave plug-in to be able to use the excellent educational modules. Also has an "ask the expert" forum for fusion-related questions.

• The Particle Adventure

  http://particleadventure.org/
  An award-winning site from the Particle Data Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. "A tour of the inner workings of the atom."

• Timeline of the Nuclear Age

  http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/timeline/
  A chronological record of the nuclear age: links to people, documents and educational units. Explore political and ethical dilemmas of the Nuclear Age.

• Visual Quantum Mechanics

  http://phys.educ.ksu.edu/
  Instructional units that introduce quantum physics to high school and college students who do not have a background in modern physics or higher level math using interactive computer programs and digital multimedia in an activity based environment.

• What Exactly Is the Higgs Boson?

  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-exactly-is-the-higgs/
  Article from Scientific American where Stephen Reucroft of the Elementary Particle Physics group at Northeastern University gives an introductory reply.

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