Herbi K. Dreiner, et al. What’s (the) Matter?, A Show on Elementary Particle Physics with 28 Demonstration Experiments

Publisher: arXiv:1607.07478v2 [physics.pop-ph], 17 Aug 2016.- 113 pages
Herbi K. Dreiner, Max Becker, Mikolaj Borzyszkowski, Maxim Braun, Alexander Faßbender, Julia Hampel, Maike Hansen, Dustin Hebecker, Timo Heepenstrick, Sascha Heinz, Katharina Hortmanns, Christian Jost, Michael Kortmann, Matthias U.Kruckow, Till Leuteritz, Claudia L¨utz, Philip Mahlberg, Johannes M¨ullers, Toby Opferkuch, Ewald Paul, Peter Pauli, Merlin Rossbach, Steffen Schaepe, Tobias Schiffer1, Jan F. Schmidt, Jana Sch¨uller-Ruhl, Christoph Sch¨urmann, Lorenzo Ubaldi and Sebastian Wagner-Carena/
"We present the screenplay of a physics show on elementary particle physics which has been developed by the Physikshow of Bonn University. The show is addressed at non-physicists aged 14 to 99 and is intended to communicate some basic concepts of elementary particle physics including the discovery of the Higgs boson in an entertaining fashion. It is also intended to demonstrate a successful outreach activity which heavily relies on the university physics students. This paper is addressed at anybody interested in particle physics, hopefully the combination of the screenplay and the detailed descriptions of the experiments will be illuminating. This paper is also addressed at fellow physicists working in outreach, maybe the experiments and our choice of simple explanation will be helpful. Furthermore, we are very interested in related activities elsewhere, in particular also demonstration experiments relevant to particle physics, since as far as we are aware, little of this work is published."
A Technical Details of Demonstration Experiments in the Show
Presentation technique
Fire Tornado
Lord Rayleigh’s Oil Drop Experiment
Wooden Scattering Experiment
Cathode Ray and Helmholtz Coils Experiment
A Simple Charged Particle Detector: Radioactive Decay and Jacob’s Ladder
Cloud Chamber
Beta−, and Beta+ Decay, Antimatter Live Onstage
Ripple Tank: Resolving an Object with Water Waves
Dancing Paper Men and the Electric Field
Linear Accelerator
Salad Bowl Circular Accelerator
Mechanical Synchrotron
Flour Explosion
Vacuum Cannon
Testicle Model
Balloon Tossing
Air Table and Strong Force
Photon Clicker
Tossing Medicine Balls on Inline Skates
Relativistic Bicycle
Tesla Coil
Tossing Balls: a Collider Onstage
Visualizing the Electric Vector Field
Visualizing the Scalar Higgs Field
The Higgs Mechanism and Eddy Currents: an Analogy
Light-Suits and Higgs Collision