Further Reading

Want to know more? Make yourself a cup of tea and read up here.

 

An explanation of the physics behind the 'Eurostar' paper

Jon has written a great explanation of the physics behind the 'Eurostar' paper for non-specialists.

http://lifeandphysics.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-physics-behind-the-paper-behind-colliding-particles/


A History of Particle Physics

A brief history of the development of Particle Physics.
http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/lbl/particleadventure/other/history/index.html


The Fundamentals of Matter

A good overview of what we know so far about the fundamentals of matter.
http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/lbl/particleadventure/index.html


The Higgs Boson

The Higgs is notoriously difficult to visualise.  Here are some alternative explanations which might help.
http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/courses/phy400w/particle/higgs.htm

 

Jet substructure as a new Higgs search channel at the Large Hadron Collider

If you've read all of the above, maybe you're now ready to tackle the 'Eurostar' paper itself.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.0409


CERN

CERN’s official website, which includes news, resources and lots of useful information.
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/


The ATLAS Experiment

The website for the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.
http://atlas.ch/

Particle Collider simulator
A fun website which allows you to play with the buttons and knobs at the LHC.
http://www.particledetectives.net/html/main.html


The Large Hadron Rap
Brilliant in so many ways..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
Particle Collision