CERN@school gives secondary schools across the country the opportunity to become engaged in university level physics research. It also provides the chance to have a real piece of CERN technology which is used in the Large Hadron Collider, in school laboratories.

CERN@school uses the same Medipix detector chip in the classroom to analyse radiation and investigate dose. This has been trialled in ten Kent schools and is now being trialled with schools based around six University partners: Kent, Southampton, Surrey, Sussex, Royal Holloway and Queen Mary. Students are currently working with the distributed computing network GridPP under the guidance of Professor Steve Lloyd. They will take LUCID and CERN@school data onto the Grid and make analysis packages available to all schools via a web portal. The development of this kit has involved the Medipix collaboration at CERN and the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at the Czech Technical University in Prague. We are working to make many hundreds of kits available to schools across the UK. This would then be the start of a major student research collaboration. Many countries in Europe have expressed interest in joining such a collaborative project.

Please click the relevant link to access the CERN@School Website.

Click here for access when outside the school.

Click here for access when at any Kent School.