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CERN brochure

Author(s): Press, Office, CERN

Contact: ippog-info@cern.ch

Submitted by: lila.mabiala@cern.ch

Published: September 30, 2010

CERN brochure

CERN Brochure - CERN

A 2 page/double sided A4 brochure. This brochure introduces CERN and explains very briefly what scientists and researchers are doing there. Topics covered include definitions of basic particles and forces, a timeline of CERN milestones, particle accelerators, LHC and what it is designed to study, basic structure of particle detectors.

Topics

Matter, Particles and the Universe (Known Physics)
Technologies and Experiments
Detectors

School Topics

Nature of science
Scientific inquiry and reasoning

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