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 Programa

10th edition of the International Masterclasses in Particle Physics to
attract more than 10,000 high-school students worldwide

Geneva, 10 March 2014. Each year in spring, research institutes and
universities around the world invite students and their teachers for a
day-long programme to experience life at the forefront of basic research.
These International Masterclasses give students the opportunity to be
particle physicists for a day by analysing real data from CERN[1]'s Large
Hadron Collider, the LHC. This year's edition will attract more than
10,000 high-school students from 40 countries[2], celebrating the 10th
edition of the initiative between 12 March and 12 April 2014.

While a Higgs boson has already been discovered by scientists at the LHC,
the data hold many other interesting secrets waiting to be found. In the
International Masterclasses, high-school students work with real data
collected by the experiments at the LHC. The main idea of this annual
programme is to let students work as much as possible like real
scientists. "The International Masterclasses are a unique opportunity for
students to work elbow-to-elbow with scientists and get a taste of how
modern research in physics works," said Michael Kobel, physics professor
from TU Dresden and head of the program me.

Four experiments - ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb - have made data available
for educational use for the International Masterclasses. Students examine
the products of collisions between elementary particles that travel
through the 27-kilometre accelerator at close to the speed of light. A
wide range of study tasks is available. For example, students can
rediscover the Z boson or the structure of the proton, reconstruct
“strange particles” or measure the lifetime of the D^0 particle. One of
the highlights is of course the hunt for Higgs bosons. ATLAS and CMS have
made available real Higgs candidate events for students to track this
rare, elusive, and very short-lived particle.

This year scientists at some 200 universities and laboratories in 40
countries worldwide are hosting International Masterclasses at their home
institutions, including new participants from Chile, Jamaica, Ecuador, and
Mexico. "In fact, the number of institutes and countries participating in
this year’s Masterclasses is even larger than the number of institutes and
countries in the ATLAS and CMS collaborations," said Hans Peter Beck from
University of Bern, co-chair of IPPOG.

Just as in many real collaborations in particle physics, students
experience this international aspect when they present their findings at
the end of their research day, in a video linkup with CERN or Fermilab
(Batavia, Illinois, U.S.) and student groups in other participating
countries.

The International Masterclasses are coordinated by TU Dresden and
QuarkNet[3] and managed by an international steering group in close
cooperation with the International Particle Physics Outreach Group
(IPPOG)[4].

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[1] CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's
leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in
Geneva. At present, its member states are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the
Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania is a Candidate for
Accession. Serbia is Associate member in the pre-stage to membership.
India, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America,
Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have observer status.

[2] The countries involved in the International Masterclasses are Austria,
Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, New Zealand, the
Netherlands, Norway, the Palestinian Authority, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
São Tomé and Príncipe, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and USA.

[3] QuarkNet is a US programme for professional development of teachers
supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of
Energy.

[4] IPPOG is a network of scientists, informal science educators and
communication specialists working across the globe in informal science
education and outreach for particle physics. IPPOG currently includes
representatives from member states of CERN plus Ireland, Romania, and the
USA; few more countries are accessing; representatives from five major
experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC); and representatives
from CERN and the German research centre DESY.