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HEP Glossary prepared by the Boston University ATLAS Group.

The Standard Model:

  • The Particle Adventure
    Explore the Standard Model of particle physics from both conceptual and experimental points of view. The Particle Adventure is arguably the single best Website for learning about the ideas of particle physics.

  • Bedtime Primer on Particle Physics
    The "Bedtime Primer on Particle Physics" is a shorter, more whimsical overview of the ideas of HEP. It also has plenty of links to lead you to more information.

  • Searching for the Building Blocks of Matter
    This online version of Fermilab's public exhibit explains HEP and some of the recent discoveries at Fermilab.

    Accelerators:

  • CERN Public Pages
    The European Laboratory for Nuclear Research, CERN, is one of the world's leading accelerator facilities. It is home to the LEP electron-positron collider, which will be replaced by 2005 by the Large Hadron Collider, LHC. The LHC will be the most powerful accelerator in the world. The ATLAS and CMS experiments in which QuarkNet teachers do research will operate at intersection points of the LHC. These CERN Public Pages give you a great deal of information about CERN and all of its activities. A recent breakthrough at CERN was the discovery of the production of a quark-gluon plasma by its NA49 heavy ion experiment.

  • Pictures from CERN
    QuarkNet staff teachers took these pictures of the CERN facilities during their recent visit.

  • Tour of Fermilab
    Fermilab, located in Batavia, Illinois, is the site of the Tevatron, currently the most powerful accelerator in the world. QuarkNet teachers work on D-Zero and CDF, the two colliding-beam experiments which will begin their second run this year. This tour is full of information about Fermilab and about accelerators in general. Fermilab hosts the QuarkNet Summer Institute held in June.

    Detectors:

  • ATLAS at CERN
    ATLAS stands, improbably, for A ToroidaLHC ApparatuS. It will be one of the two main colliding proton beam detectors in the LHC. ATLAS may give us our first look at the elusive Higgs boson.

  • ATLAS Photos
    These photographs show the ATLAS site under construction at CERN. Other photos of the ATLAS and CMS sites can be found at "Pictures from CERN" above.

  • CMS at CERN
    CMS, the Compact Muon Solenoid, is compact only in that it is massive but not quite as large as ATLAS. CMS will be the other main detector at the LHC.

  • CDF at Fermilab
    CDF, the Collider Detector at Fermilab, is one of the two main detectors for the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider.

  • D-Zero at Fermilab
    D-Zero is one of two main detectors for the Tevatron. D-Zero refers to the location of this large detector on the Tevatron ring.



    Direct from the Scriptorum

    The books below are available from the Barnes and Noble Website (www.barnesandnoble.com) and also, presumably, from Barnes and Noble and other bookstores.


    1. Barnett, R. Michael, et al., The Charm of Strange Quarks: Mysteries and Revolutions of Particle Physics (paperback), Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., April 2000.

    2. Gell-Mann, Murray, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (paperback), W. H. Freeman Company, October 1995.

    3. Greene, Brian, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (paperback), Vintage Books, March 2000.

    4. Kane, Gordon L., The Particle Garden: The Universe as Understood by Particle Physicists (paperback), Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., January 1996.

    5. Lederman, Leon and David N. Schramm, From Quarks to Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (paperback), W. H. Freeman Company, November 1995.

    6. Lederman, Leon with Dick Teresi, The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question? (paperback), Dell Publishing Company, Inc., December 1993.

    7. Schwarz, Cindy and Sheldon Glashow, A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo: A Guide to Particle Physics (paperback), AIP Press, January 1998.


    For a somewhat more rigorous but still non-threatening approach, try:

    Coughlan, G. D. , The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists (paperback), Cambridge University Press.BR>

    If you think you've got what it takes to wade through a graduate level text, also try:
    Aitchison, Ian and Anthony Hey, Gauge Theories in Particle Physics (paperback) IOP Publishing Ltd, 1989.
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