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What's (the) Matter?

Bonn Particle Physics Show

Free of charge. Registration Required!

A show on Elementary Particle Physics with Demonstration Experiments

for general public aged 14 to 99
communicates basic concepts of elementary particle physics

Higgs boson

included!

Where: Anfiteatro Abreu Faro

Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

When: Wed, 19 September 2018, 17:30

Thu, 20 September 2018, 18:00

two performances of the same show, duration 100 min

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How to register?

fill the registration form at https://sites.google.com/view/ParticlePhysicsShow/registration with the following information:

number of people and names
type of participation

High School
University student
other (please indicate your field of activity)

and CHOOSE THE DATE OF THE SHOW!

High School Physics teachers are invited to register their students

Individual registrations are also very much encouraged

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Some Details About the Show

The show is set up as a quest, where two students from Bonn with the aid of a caretaker travel back in time to understand the fundamental nature of matter. They visit Rutherford and Geiger in Manchester around 1911, who recount their famous experiment on the nucleus and show how particle detectors work.

Then they travel forward in time to meet E. Lawrence at Berkeley around 1950 teaching them about the how and why of accelerators

Next, they visit Sau Lan Wu at DESY, Hamburg around 1980, who explains the strong force.

CERN

picture

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The final stop is in the LHC tunnel at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, in 2012

Two experimentalists tell them about colliders and our heroes watch live as the Higgs boson is produced and decays

For additional information see:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07478

CERN picture

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CAST: (University of Bonn)

Herbert Dreiner (Director)

Michael Kortmann (Technician)

Till Fohrmann

Laura Rodríguez Gómez

Kristoffer Kerkhof

Niklas Kramer

Víctor Martin Lozano

Steffi Moll

David Ohse

Johann Ostmeyer

Jana Schüller Ruhl

Christoph Schürmann

Martin Schürmann

Anne Stockhausen

Lorenzo Ubaldi

Alexandra Wald

Laura Weber

This show is an absolutely unique activity worldwide

and as a result Herbert Dreiner and Michael Kortmann

were awarded the HEP Outreach Prize of the European Physical Society in 2009.

The show has been presented in English at Oxford University and University College (3/2014) as well as Padua University and ICTP (3/2015), Copenhagen and Odense (9/2016), Valencia and Barcelona (9/2017). It was first performed in German at the Deutsche Museum, Bonn (5/2014) and more recently in Mainz (3/2018).

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photo by Per Osland

Co-organised by:

COST Action CA15108 Connecting insights in fundamental physics (supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020)
University of Bonn
Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas (CFTP), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
NFIST (Núcleo de Física do IST)

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Sponsors:

Local Organising Committee:

M. (Gui) N. Rebelo (CFTP/IST)

Gustavo C. Branco (CFTP/IST)

Igor Ivanov (CFTP/IST)

COST Organising Committee:

Herbert Dreiner (Leader of WG6)