Here are some interesting websites, mainly about particle physics. You can find this list at: http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/documents/WebGuide/default.html
The lists are by no means exhaustive, but are the result of some knowledge coupled with occasional "surfing". They all display properly with the latest version of Netscape running on a PC, but other than that there are no guarantees that they will download properly.
The level of knowledge required varies from site to site. While some are aimed at the real beginner, others are more suitable for those who have already studied some particle physics. Constructive comments will be gratefully received!
Christine Sutton
(University of Oxford)
email: c.sutton1@physics.ox.ac.uk
Introductions to Particle Physics
Particle Physics UK
http://www.particlephysics.ac.uk/
The starting place to give the web surfer access to
various particle physics sites. Look here, for example, for the
UK universities that work in particle physics, which experiments
they work on - and who can give talks on particle physics. Also
featuring regular news items, "what's on" in particle
physics, and a growing library of images under "Picture of
the Week".
Big Bang Science
http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/pub/bigbang/part1.html
PPARC’s booklet
introducing particle physics, especially at CERN and its Large
Electron Positron collider (LEP).
The Particle Adventure
http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/lbl/particleadventure/
Learn about basic particle
physics in an interactive "Particle Adventure", a
web-site from the Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP),
which is mirrored in Durham. See http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/lbl/particleadventure/other/education/ for classroom activities and http://www.cpepweb.org/ for more information about the CPEP. Also
links to sites (not mirrored) about Plasma Physics and Fusion and
about Nuclear Science.
SLAC Virtual Visitor Center
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/home.html
An excellent site from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in
California, home to the 2-mile long linear electron accelerator.
There is a lot of good information here.
All about neutrinos
http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/neutrinos/aneut.html
An informative guide to the history of neutrinos and the
various puzzles surrounding them.
High-energy physics made
painless
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/painless/htmls/index.html
Articles from Ferminews - the newsletter of
Fermilab - which aim to explain ideas in particle physics in
everyday language.
Of interest to schools
....
http://www.hep.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk/hep/schools/schools.html
Goodies about particle physics, including a "slide
show" introduction to particle physics.
Events in DELPHI
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/Documents/ParticleDemos/DelphiIntro/index.html
An introduction
to interpreting events in one of the four LEP detectors at CERN.
If you can run Java you can also try rotating and zooming events
at http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/WIRED/.
Hands on CERN
http://hands-on-cern.physto.se/
For those with Java, the chance to
rotate and zoom real events from the DELPHI detector. Click on
the event display, read the instructions and select the detector
components. Useful in conjunction with the above two sites.
Identifying events at LEP
http://hepwww.ph.man.ac.uk/~wyatt/events/
A self-guided tutorial aimed at sixth-formers which explains
how to understand event pictures from the OPAL detector at LEP,
together with a five-part challenge (with the answers!).
Making top quark data
accessible ...
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/samplers/hsphys/activities/top_quark_intro.html
Use conservation of momentum to calculate the mass of
the top quark, complete with pages for students and pages for
teachers.
Lancaster Particle Physics
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/spc/wotsnew/LPP/LPP.htm
Information about
a computer package designed to help A-level students who have
chosen one of the Particle Physics options currently available.
Seeing particles
http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/user/watkins/seeweb/BubbleChamber.htm
Exercises aimed at schools,
based on the interpretation of photographs of particle tracks in
bubble chambers.
Beginners guide to high energy
physics
http://www-physics.mps.ohiostate.edu/~cleo/hep/
Some detail about how experiments and detectors work, based on
the CLEO detector at the Cornell Laboratory, New York, but not
for absolute beginners! Includes some do-it-yourself analysis but
at a fairly sophisticated level.
Major Particle Physics Labs and Detectors
CERN - Europe's main centre for
particle physics
http://www.cern.ch/Public/
Home of particle
physics in Europe and the invention of the World Wide Web. The
site includes general information about particle physics, links
to experiments, and some information for teachers at http://microcosm.web.cern.ch/Microcosm/teachers/home. Also keep a look out for up-coming
webcasts, and take a look at the antimatter site, http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/
Welcome to the DELPHI
experiment
http://www.cern.ch/Delphi/Welcome.html
More detailed information on the DELPHI detector, with some good
event pictures for the more advanced student (under "About
DELPHI - DELPHI transparencies").
The OPAL detector
http://www.cern.ch/Opal/tour/detector.html
More detailed information about OPAL - for the seriously
interested. There is also good tutorial on typical events in
OPAL, with pictures (in both GIF and Postscript formats) - again
for the keener enthusiast - at http://www.cern.ch/Opal/events/opalpics.html.
Learning physics from ALEPH
events
http://alephwww.cern.ch/EDUC/Welcome.html
More detailed information about one of the four LEP detectors at
CERN, and events therein, for the more advanced student. Needs a
Postscript viewer to view events. However you can find events in
GIF format at http://alephwww.cern.ch/DALI/.
The ATLAS detector
http://atlasinfo.cern.ch:80/Atlas/Welcome.html
The biggest of the detectors being built for CERN's next
accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The Education pages
are on a server in the US, but the Public pages are at CERN.
The CMS detector
http://cmsinfo.cern.ch/Welcome.html
The smaller "general purpose detector" being
buit for LHC. ("C" is for compact!). Look under
Outreach for more general information.
The LHCb detector
http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/
The experiment at the LHC that may help us understand
why we aren;t made from antimatter.
DESY laboratory, Hamburg
http://www.desy.de/html/home/fastnavigator.html
The home of HERA, the
world’s only electron-proton collider. The links on this
page take you mainly to sites in English, but the navigation bar
at the top at present takes you to German pages.
The H1 experiment at HERA
http://www-h1.desy.de/
An introduction to one of the major experiments on the HERA
collider at DESY, including a "tour" and event
displays.
The ZEUS experiment at
HERA
http://www-zeus.desy.de/
The second of the two major experiments investigating
electron-proton collisions at DESY. There are some interesting
attempts to explain the physics behind the published papers at http://www-zeus.desy.de/zeus_papers/paper_summary/
BaBar and the Missing
Antimatter
http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/BaBarpub/
An introduction to the BaBar experiment and its search for
subtle differences beteen matter and antimatter. A teaching
package on special relativity and its application to events in
BaBar can be found at http://freespace.virgin.net/j.allnutt/mphys2/babarteach/intro.html.
Physics at Fermilab
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/physics/index.html
An introduction to aspects of particle physics from Fermilab in
the US.
Gran Sasso
http://www.lngs.infn.it/
Particle physics underground, without accelerators, at an
international laboratory in Italy, under the Gran Sasso Massif.
Neutrino experiments
http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/neutrino-industry/
A starting point for anyone who wants to know about the
wide variety of experiments with neutrinos
The Official String Theory
Website
http://www.superstringtheory.com/
So what is string theory? Find out at this excellent site by the
physicist-wife of one of the pioneers of string theory.
Dark matter tutorial
http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~dursi/dm-tutorial/dm0.html
A valuable dark matter
tutorial, with interactive simulations for those who can run with
Java.
COSMOS - National
Cosmology Supercomputer
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/cosmos/Public/
This gives access
to an excellent introduction to cosmology, set up by cosmologists
at Cambridge. With good illustrations.
The Brilliance of X-rays
http://www.cclrc.ac.uk/Activity/ACTIVITY=Brilliance
How synchrotron radiation is produced and used at the
UK's Daresbury Laboratory.
About ISIS
http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/aboutIsis/index.htm
An introduction to the world's "brightest"
pulsed neutron and muon source at the UK's Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory.
Microworlds
http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/
An interactive tour of materials research at the Advanced Light
Source at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, with
the opportunity to acquire a poster!
Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/astropix.html
A different picture each day, with a brief explanation.
The Electronic Nobel
Museum
http://www.nobel.se/
All about all the Nobel prizes, from 1901 to the present
day, including videos of the Nobel lectures for the most recent
awards.
Order of magnitude physics
http://dope.caltech.edu/ph103c/info.html
A series of "classes" on how to calculate things
"on the back of an envelope (beer mat, etc)". In other
words, getting students used to understanding the orders of
magnitudes involved in various physical situations. Something
that even undergraduates in physics could do with!
The Internet Pilot to Physics
http://physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/
Includes the opportunity for some interactive
"experiments" which illustrate a range of physics from
Ohm’s law, to chaotic pendulums, to controlling a nuclear
reactor!