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Fermilab: Hyperons & Neutrinos

For Students 9th - 10th
The third paragraph pinpoints the importance of hyperons in particle research. Hyperons and neutrinos share characteristics of the weak force. Complex stuff, but the real deal. Parts of this report may be very useful. Many photos, slow...
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University of Birmingham: Seeing Particles

For Students 9th - 10th
This website gives an introduction to analyzing bubble chamber photographs and then gives 16 photographs for students to analyze. Solutions are given. The exercises are challenging but helpful.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this site for an interactive tour of the atom and all aspects of particle physics. View the animations available with almost every description on this site. A great place for the fundamentals of particles and forces including a...
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University of Sheffield: Bubble Chambers

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the advantages and disadvantages of bubble chambers. Links to more advanced physics and formulas.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Observing the World of Particles

For Students 9th - 10th
After some brief background information on detectors, this site breaks into information on the cloud chamber, the nuclear emulsion, the bubble chamber, and the multiwire chamber.
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Fermilab: Play Particle Pool

For Students 9th - 10th
Simulate what scientists see in a bubble chamber by playing "particle pool". You'll set up balls and cause collisions while a video monitor records the ghost paths of each individual ball. You'll also predict patterns that will result...
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Cern High School Teachers Programme: An Estimate of the Mass of the Positron

For Students 9th - 10th
This guides the reader through the analysis of a bubble chamber photograph in order to estimate the mass of the positron. The analysis is mathematical.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Bubble Chamber 1952

For Students 9th - 10th
To understand a bubble chamber, picture the long, white streak an airplane leaves in its wake. That's water vapor produced by condensation from the plane's hot exhaust. Until the water particles evaporate, you can follow the streak to...