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ACADEMIC

science

Upper Sixth physics students attended a Particle Physics Masterclass at Rutherford
Appleton Laboratories (RAL) near Didcot, Oxfordshire.

This is a popular series of one day group was also treated to a first-hand The trip provided the group with an
events for Sixth Form students and account of what is being done by opportunity to look at some of the data
their teachers, run by particle physics the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In produced by the LHC; with two of our
researchers at various institutes all addition to learning more about the students managing to identify the
over the country. different types of accelerators, they Higgs Boson! It was a most informative
also had the opportunity of being and interesting day in which theory
The trip gave students the opportunity shown around one of the accelerators, and practice went together. GAS
to hear talks by leading particle ISIS; a neutron and muon source.
physicists from RAL and CERN. The

Who dunnit? First Formers apply forensic
techniques to solving this Bloxham crime!
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