Summary and Schedule
This lesson provides resources for you to learn about particle physics. It is not a complete overview and depending on your level, you may need to review some introductory physics concepts.
We hope this is a solid jumping-off-point for anyone new to this field and that it gives you the necessary background to get the most out of this workshop.
If you feel there are other materials that could be useful to future participants, please email the organizers (see Contact link at bottom of this page).
| Setup Instructions | Download files required for the lesson | |
| Duration: 00h 00m | 1. Introduction |
What is particle physics? What is happening at the LHC? |
| Duration: 00h 11m | 2. Videos for the general public |
What is the LHC? What is CERN? What is the CMS experiment? What are we trying to do at these experiments? |
| Duration: 01h 14m | 3. Lectures and exercises |
What do we mean by “The Standard Model”? How did we develop our understanding of particles and forces? What role do experiments have in pushing and confirming theories? What are the outstanding questions in particle physics? |
| Duration: 04h 17m | 4. Toy analyses |
How can we use momentum and energy to calculate the mass of a
particle? How do we use this to discover particles too short-lived to travel through our detector? |
| Duration: 06h 22m | Finish |
The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.
Setup
For this lesson, you primarily need to have a computer with access to the internet and the requisite audio/video capabilities to watch/listen to YouTube videos.
You will get the most out of this lesson if you also
- Attempt some of the problems presented in the video lectures
- Use Google Colab to try out some simple python problem sets.