CERN sites

CERN offers a wide array of educational opportunities and resources about CERN and particle physics. From here you can take virtual tours or arrange for a real visit.


CERN Public Pages - A good place to start learning about CERN http://www.cern.ch/Public/
CERN Visit Service - Information on visiting CERN http://www.cern.ch/VisitsService/
Microcosm - CERN's permanent exhibition, a highlight of any CERN visit. http://www.cern.ch/microcosm/
CERN Virtual Tour - A quick introduction to what CERN is. http://www.cern.ch/Public/whatiscern.html
European Particle Physics Outreach Group - CERN Outreach's easy link to national particle physics pages of every CERN member state http://outreach.cern.ch/public/Welcome.html
Outreach Group Main Page - This site contains the picture packs and educational information about CERN experiments shown to the teachers by the Outreach Group http://outreach.cern.ch/public/cern/Page1.html
The Particle Adventure - "An Interactive Tour of the Inner Workings of the Atom and the Tools for Discovery" -- Created by a collaboration of particle physicists and educators. http://wwwpdg.cern.ch/pdg/particleadventure/index.html
CERN Press Office - Offers a selecton of high-quality CERN photographs to download. Also worth contacting for CERN materials. http://www.cern.ch/Press/
Index of physics diagrams and charts - High-quality, colorful particle physics diagrams and charts http://www.cern.ch/Press/Photos
ATLAS Experiment Public Web Pages - Has nice, easy online tours of the particle physics, the LHC accelerator, and the Atlas detector. http://atlasinfo.cern.ch/Atlas/public/Welcome.html
A list of useful URLs for CERN Guides - A list of educational sites compiled by the visits service. http://www.cern.ch/VisitsService/URLs.html
WIRED: World Wide Web Interactive Real Event Display - Although still being perfected, this is a project the teachers were shown at CERN. It allows students to analyze real detector data. A CDRom is in the works. http://wired.cern.ch/