ATLAS open data for education and outreach is intended for everyone that wants to learn about particle physics. Whether you are a high school or university student, a teacher or professor, or just someone curious about the workings of the universe, the open data for education is the ideal way to start or continue learning about high energy particle physics from real data used today for research.
We offer:
The data for research is data used for analysis internally by the ATLAS collaboration. It’s aimed at scientists interested in a deeper understanding of particle physics, or in the development of new tools and technologies.
The published data includes:
The data is hosted at the CERN Open Data Portal. All datasets on the portal are shared under a Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication; the data and software are assigned unique DOI identifiers to make them citable in scientific articles; and software is released under open source licenses. Learn how to access the data. Computing resources and tips are available.
At the ATLAS Open Data website we offer a wide range of material to use the open data. We offer a histogram analyser, to make analyses with visual tools; jupyter notebooks with physics analyses to find the Higgs or the Z boson; a tutorial on how to visualize datasets using Phoenix, to make event displays; instructions on how to use containers, to follow the internally used analysis software tutorial; and much more.
An ATLAS Virtual Visit connects a classroom, exhibition or other public venue with scientists located at the experiment using web-based video conferencing. It is a chance for you to have a conversation with the scientists working on ATLAS.
Be a particle physicist for a day by participating in the hands-on analysis of real ATLAS data. The Particle Physics Masterclasses include exercises that allow students to select events and learn key concepts of analysis. These classes are typically led by a researcher from the collaboration working with local teachers, but can be downloaded and run anywhere.
The annual International Physics Masterclasses join classrooms from around the world in a day-long programme than culminates in a videoconference for discussion and combination of results. Join an event near you.
Discover the Large Hadron Collider in full 3D pop-up, one of the greatest adventures in science today. Engineering wizardry leaps from the page to reveal its inner workings. The book tells the story of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
Discover the Large Hadron Collider in full 3D pop-up, one of the greatest adventures in science today. Engineering wizardry leaps from the page to reveal its inner workings. The book tells the story of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The experiment is run by 3000 scientists from 38 countries around the world, on a quest to understand what the universe is made of and how it works.
Pop-ups and illustrations by Anton Radevsky, text by Emma Sanders.
The book is available for purchase on the CERN site (at the reception, the library and the ATLAS secretariat) and at all good bookstores, including Amazon US, Amazon UK and Waterstone (UK).
Each pop-out genuinely illuminates the workings of the detector and the interactions of the particles it hopes to find.
Among popular books about particle physics, this one stands out - quite literally.
New Scientist
It's not difficult to come up with mind blowing facts when your subject is the Large Hadron Collider and this book is full of them.
The Times
Create the ATLAS detector and the Large Hadron Collider out of LEGOs! The Build Your Own Particle Detector programme provides the plans and part lists for you to create LHC detectors at home.
Enter the world of particle physics with the newly-launched ATLAScraft! Built within the wildly successful game platform Minecraft, this new world recreates the laboratory using 3D blocks. Explore the CERN campus, shrink down to the size of a particle, and even conduct their own “experiments” in educational minigames.