Particle Accelerators - Shedding Light on the Dark Universe

With the LHC running and hunting for Higgs and dark matter, this is a great year to discuss connection of accelerator, particle physics and astronomy with A-level pupils.

The University of Oxford is therefore organising in collaboration with CERN a one-day school to give A-level teachers an opportunity to learn about the physics underlying the LHC. This school will give basic information about particle accelerators and particle physics to Physics teachers who are not necessarily Physics specialists. Preference will be given to teachers coming from schools which usually send very few pupils to University.

Participating teachers will have the opportunity to learn more about the dark matter and dark energy, how this is connected to astronomy and particle physics, and how accelerators can help to study these phenomena. The school will address questions such as "What is the origin of the Universe and of matter?" "What dark matter" "What can LHC help to study dark matter?" "How does LHC or other particle accelerator work?" "How LHC experiments are connected to astronomy?" and "What are the applications of particle accelerators in our daily lives?"

The last year APPEAL was very successful and we are looking forward for very interesting event this year as well.

The APPEAL-2 event will take take place on Saturday, 2 July 2011 at the University of Oxford.

The programme is available here.

To take part in this school register before the 30 May 2011.

The organisers are grateful for the support received from the following organisations: