From 22nd to 29th January the registration for the Masterclass in Particle Physics 2019 will open

ICCUB will host a new edition of the Masterclass in Particle Physics, held at the ICCUB under the name of  Taller de Física de Partícules.  The registration for the two editions offered this year will be opened from January 22nd to 29th.

Particle physics is one of the most important emerging fields in science. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in summer 2012 led to a large public interest in understanding particle physics. In a daylong Masterclass, high school students can explore this field of cutting-edge physics by working with authentic data from experiments at the LHC under the supervision of physicists.

The basic idea of the program is to let students work as much as possible like real scientists. Four experiments - ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb - have made data for educational use within the program. The data used at the ICCUB will correspond to the LHCb experiment, to which researchers of the Experimental Particle Physics group have made important technical and scientific contributions. Similarly to what occurs in real scientific collaborative environments, the activity will include a connection in a videoconference with physicists at CERN and other student groups from around the world to discuss their results. At the end of the session, The students visit the laboratories of the Physics Faculty of the University of Barcelona, headquarters of the ICCUB.

The Masterclass at ICCUB is part of an annual program called International Masterclasses. Scientists at about 215 universities and laboratories host Masterclasses at their home institutions. The Masterclasses this year are organized from March 7th to April 26th in more than 52 countries worldwide. The worldwide participation reflects the international collaboration in particle physics. The ICCUB  editions will be held on 8th and 22nd March 2019.

International Masterclasses are organized by the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG). IPPOG is an independent group of outreach representatives from countries involved in the research at CERN and other leading research laboratories. The group’s goal is to make particle physics more accessible to the public.

For further information:

• TFP 2019 on Servipartícules
• International Masterclasses: www.physicsmasterclasses.org 
• Schedule (videoconferences with CERN): www.physicsmasterclasses.org/index.php?cat=schedule
• Schedule (videoconferences with Fermilab): https://quarknet.org/content/videoconferences-2019#fnal