200 Catalan secondary-school students to be physicists for a day at the Large Hadron Collider
On 4 and 14 March, 200 Catalan secondary-school students will take part in interactive video-conference sessions with students from across the world as part of the Particle Physics Workshop, organized by the Faculty of Physics at the University of Barcelona (UB). Participants will be given access to real data recorded by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Geneva).
On 4 and 14 March, 200 Catalan secondary-school students will take part in interactive video-conference sessions with students from across the world as part of the Particle Physics Workshop, organized by the Faculty of Physics at the University of Barcelona (UB). Participants will be given access to real data recorded by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Geneva).
A research group from the UBʼs Institute of Cosmos Sciences is involved in work towards the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, one of the four main detectors that studies the collisions generated by the LHC. This group has been responsible for organizing the Particle Physics Workshop since 2005, under the framework of the international masterclass programme “Hands on Particle Physics”, which each year offers 8000 secondary-school students from around the world the chance to learn more about particle physics. The initiative is supported by more than 100 universities and research laboratories in 23 countries and for the last seven years has been run simultaneously in over 30 research centres in the United States.