LHC(b) Tutorial

Workshop Tutorial for Teachers

Divide into three groups. Each group is assigned to find answers for the Foundation Question plus one of the three Group questions. Each group presents to the other groups what they have learned.

Foundation Question for all 3 groups:  What is the Large Hadron Collider?

Group Questions (one per group):

1. Briefly describe the LHCb experiment.
2. What is CP violation?
3. Why is B-physics important?

Each group reports out their findings.

Resources:

• LHC (CERN)
• LHC (Wikipedia)
• LHC videos:
  • LHC: The Large Hadron Collider (Don Lincoln)
  • Large Hadron Rap (Alpine Kat et al)
• LHCb experiment (CERN)
• LHCb experiment (LHCb outreach)
• LHCb videos:
  • What is the LHCb experiment? (CERN)
  • The LHC experiments (Don Lincoln; LHCb at 2:40))
• CP Violation (Wikipedia)
• CP Videos:
  • CP Violation and the Ozma Problem (Minute Physics)
  • Physics of a Mirror Universe (Up and Atom)
• Bottom Quark (Wikipedia)
• B meson (Wikipedia)
• B videos:
  • Subatomic Stories: Quarks (Don Lincoln)
  • T Violation in B mesons (Doucette)
  • This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry (Vertisium)