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Useful Web Sites at CERN

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


Contact: Hanley@southbridge.demon.co.uk Last modified: 30.8.99

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