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LUCID - a year to go

PostDateIconFriday, 16 July 2010 00:08

With about a year to go before LUCID needs to be ready to send out to Baikonur for launch we are meeting up today at Surrey Satellite Technology Limited with Professor Larry Pinsky.

Larry has been testing the Timepix chips to be used in LUCID, in very intense beams of electrons in Japan.  In space they will experience harsher conditions than they do in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

We are taking a big group of students to work not only on LUCID but also on the protocols for controlling the experiments carried out in space.  Mission Control at the Star Centre will need to be rigorously arranged as it is in a NASA mission control. As Larry says the data we get from LUCID will be as valuable and new as that from a NASA mission.

 

 

A quick bit of news!

PostDateIconThursday, 08 July 2010 14:21

Afternoon Folks!

Right, just a quick update on everything. New look website with even more resources, sections and still more to come. We've uploaded the "Eye of the Tiger" video after popular demand, and are currently putting up lots of GCSE, AS and A Level resources to work with the courses. Hopefully we can even have an area that you guys can upload all your Faulkes images to compare and contrast.

CERN@school is running beautifully, with more chips going into schools next Wednesday (14th July) and everyone having a great time taking data. Soon we will be showing you other uses in the classroom to show real radiation happening there and then! There's also going to be some new groovy boxes to contain the chips, so that you can show it off to all your friends and family with transparent lids.

 

News - CERN@school

PostDateIconWednesday, 26 May 2010 11:32

The CERN@school project is almost ready to roll out across Kent. 

We have had a great deal of interest in the project and have been featured in the CERN Courier.
http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/42330

As soon as Kent students start to take data we will be updating you on progress.

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NASA meets the LUCID project

PostDateIconWednesday, 13 January 2010 14:20

Our students had the fantastic opportunity to work for two full days with Professor Larry Pinsky, Chairman of Physics at the University of Houston and expert on astronaut dosimetry at NASA.

He came over to visit our students to help them analyse data received from Timepix detectors we are using as the basic detectors for the LUCID cosmic ray detector.  The Langton Ultimate Cosmic ray Intensity Detector will fly on a Surrey Satellite Technology Limited satellite in 2011.  It will give students unbelievable opportunities to be involved in cutting edge research while at school.

 

CERN 2009

PostDateIconWednesday, 21 October 2009 23:10

'The best visit ever', 'a fantastic time', 'awesome' were some of the descriptions our students gave of the CERN trip they have just returned from.

We visited the CMS detector and the ATLAS control room, the magnet research area SM18 and the labs of the Medipix research group.  It was all brilliant.

We are really grateful to all the people at CERN who have directly inspired forty eight of our A level physics students.

 
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