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Students use momentum conservation to examine the decay of top-antitop pairs to determine what is missing from the event.

Rolling dice serves as the model for decaying particles.

Teams of students organize cards depicting fundamental particles based on their characteristics. This activity is a foundation for learning about the Standard Model and parallels the methods used by scientists to organize the elements into the period table.

Students learn how physicists measure muon lifetime.

Students roll dice, record the resulting individual values as well as the sum of the values, create histograms of the data and develop insight into the concept of “degrees of freedom." 

Students use statistics to make an indirect measurement they can easily confirm.

Students explore the effects of electric and magnetic fields on particles. 

Students use conservation laws and vector addition to calculate the top mass from event displays.

Students use conservation laws and vector addition to calculate the Z mass from event displays.