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Y3 Particle Physics version of this course is on the Birmingham Canvas system. Below is the historical material for this course, last updated for the 2013 14. All...

The Cloud Chamber A Cloud Chamber is a device used to detect ionizing particles and to determine their trajectories. It does not show the particles themselves, but...

A few photos, with sources: NA62 after cabling up something (Francesco Gonnella, Angela Romano, ??) photo from Francesco out after the CERN relay race...

Welcome to the 1 web Photo collections photos in Birmingham, modern and ancient Miscellaneous photos of group members working on or resting from...

The Minerva Masterclass Introduction to Minerva Minerva is a Masterclass tool allowing students to learn more about the physics that goes on in the ATLAS detector...

CERN (Geneva) Travel Information (Updated Jul 2014: New destination for citybound tram: `Carouge`. No warranty for any info here, obviously) Flights During the...

UK Experimental Particle Physics Groups These are the UK experimental Particle Physics groups. All of the university groups offer (fully funded) PhD studentships...

Guide for new PhD students This is a guide intended to help new PhD students starting with the Particle Physics research group. It is based on mine others` experiences...

Detecting Cosmic Rays with the Birmingham QuarkNet Project What is QuarkNet? QuarkNet is an international collaboration of schools which is investigating cosmic rays...

Using DaVinci to fill an nTuple This page is designed to give a brief outline of how to use DaVinci to fill nTuples from data or Monte Carlo. For more details please...

This page will be the repository for material for the Year 2 Particles and Nuclei module My contact details: Email: Alan.Watson #64;CERN.CH Room: West...

Undergraduate Teaching Various topics related to teaching activities within the PP group. Moderation of Y1 assessed problems Moderation of Y2 assessed problems...

As part of the recent EU project `Discover the Cosmos`, a starter exercise, using Minerva software to identify particle tracks in the ATLAS detector, has been developed...

Year 3 Group Studies Particle Physics Computing Pythia Information about the Monte Carlo program Pythia can be found here. There is the manual itself which describes...

Y1 Introduction to Particle Physics and Cosmology Material for the 2012 13 course. The course consists of two separate parts, PP and Cosmology. The course begins...

General Use This is a list of a few web pages which I have found more or less interesting, with my personal comments on them. Particle Data Group (PDG) a...

Y2 Neutrino Physics Material for the 2010 11 course for PwPPC students. First lecture is Tues. 9 Nov. 2010, Physics West 106, at 1200; thereafter, Mondays (Nuffield...

Using the TMVA Tool in ROOT This page describes how to use the TMVA tool, which is a tool for performing a Multivariate analysis in root. More details can be found...

Reading List No single text is perfect for this module. Your Year 1 text, Young and Freedman, has some relevant material but doesn`t go far enough. Most others contain...

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Leaflets and Resources There are three leaflets currently available: Particles Chamber Chamber LaTeX source files These leaflets were formatted...

The Bubble Chamber The bubble chamber was invented in 1952 by Donald Glaser, he eventually won a noble prize for it in 1960. A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with...

The Spark Chamber A spark chamber is a device used for electrically charged particles. Widely used in the 1970s as a research tool, its main purpose today is to demonstrate...

Outreach Welcome to the Outreach pages for the Birmingham Particle Physics Group. http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/General/SparkChamber http:...

QuarkNet Worksheets Download worksheets from here Quick Worksheets Here are some worksheets to get you started with a quick experiment to measure the flux of cosmic...

Reading List These books vary widely in their level of treatment, some are more advanced than required for this course. list for course in main library updated...

Reading List These are a few texts on neutrino physics which you may find helpful. There is a wide range of levels between the texts and some are more advanced reference...

Theory of the Cloud Chamber In order to look at why supersaturation occurs we must first introduce some equations of the first law of thermodynamics. As stated earlier...

STEM event July 2010 Following the event, random collection of suggestions from all present for next time. Timing of guides, either free flowing or fixed time...

Cloud Chamber A few photos from the most recent outreach event, more to follow. JPG: JPG: JPG: JPG:

Notes for Year 1 Markers: 20011/12 Autumn Term There are three physics courses to be marked in the Autumn term: Classical Mechanics and Relativity (Dr. G.T....

Notes for Year 2 Markers: 2011/12 Autumn Term There are two core physics courses to be marked in the Autumn term: Classical Mechanics/Relativity (Dr. A.T. Watson...

NigelWatson 07 Sep 2010 Cosmic Rays Cosmic rays are high energy charged particles that originate in outer space, (mainly from supernova explosions but also from stars...

NigelWatson 13 Sep 2010 Particles A very good explanation of this section can be found at the Particle adventure Here are some brief details of different types...

NigelWatson 07 Sep 2010 Detectors Detectors are devices used by elementary particle physicists in the search for a greater understanding of the subatomic particles...

This is a short lived demo NigelWatson 06 Sep 2010

Spark Chamber Efficiency SparkChamberEfficiency 23jul2010.xls: Simple spreadsheet to estimate efficiency of spark chamber modules

Weird Events We recorded events in low light conditions with a small video camera, used individual frames to estimate the efficiency. However, some of the things we...

Reading List These are a few texts on neutrino physics which you may find helpful. There is a wide range of levels between the texts and some are more advanced reference...

USA Visa Waiver Program VERY IMPORTANT CHANGES This notice has been compiled by Fermilab Visa Office. Thanks to Cristina for forwarding it. Effective 9th January...

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