Physics with Bubble Chambers

• Introduction
• How to read bubble chamber pictures
• How to see the invisible
• Relativity in bubble chamber pictures
• General questions about bubble chamber pictures
• Calculation of momentum (PowerPoint presentation)
• Movement of particles (PowerPoint presentation)
• Special pictures and their interpretation
  • Educational
    • Photons, electrons and positrons
      • Accelerated charges radiate
      • Two special positrons: weigh a positron; positron annihilation in flight (For details click here)
        • Magnification of weigh a positron section (For details click here)
        • Overall view of the event containing the above
    • Hadronic interactions
      • Study of collisions of strongly interacting particles
      • Simple example of interaction and decay: K- p  -->  K0 p pi- 
        • Exercise: Interaction and decay: K- p  -->  K0 p pi- 
        • Interpretation: Interaction and decay: K- p  -->  K0 p pi- 
        • Animation
      • Beautiful example of K+ decaying to 3 charged pions; then pi's decay; then mu's decay
      • Pretty example of simple hadronic interactions cradled is cosmic rays
      • 10 GeV/c K+ p interaction with beautiful pi mu e decay and stopping proton.
        • Close up of pi mu e.
    • Neutrino interactions
      • Example of xi minus production in nu p interaction
  • Historical
    • Omega minus events
      • Discovery of omega minus
      • Clear example of omega minus production in 10 GeV/c K- p interactions at CERN
      • Omega- production (Birmingham event)
      • Charge exchange with Dalitz pair
      • Discovery of anti omega minus. (For original article click here)
      • Close up of discovery of anti omega minus.
      • Details of primary interaction of anti omega minus production.