Big Ideas Of Science
Subject Domains
- Accelerators
- Accelerators & Beams
- Angular Velocity
- Antimatter
- Calorimeters
- Charged Particle Acceleration
- Collision
- Conservation And Dissipation
- Conservation Of Momentum
- Dark Matter (High Energy Physics)
- Electric Charge - Generally
- Electric Field
- Electricity And Magnetism
- Electromagnetic Field
- Electromagnetism - Generally
- Energy
- Energy
- Fields
- Forces And Motion
- Higgs Particle
- High Energy Physics
- Internal Energy
- Invariant Mass
- Kinetic Energy
- Leptons
- Magnetic Field
- Nuclear Force
- Physics
- Potential Energy
- Qcd, Jets & Gluons
- Quarks & Hadrons
- Standard Model
- Supersymmetry
- Tools For Science
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Description
In this activity students have the chance to test the conservation of momentum in particle collisions. Using data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN they determine the total momentum from all particles tracked after a particle collision and they calculate (magnitude & direction) the missing momentum.
Prior Knowledge Requirements
Students need to be familiar with the conservation of momentum, the elementary particles,drawing and adding vectors.
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