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The OPAL Detector

A description of the OPAL detector at CERN, and the links to the LEP accelerator. Description of components of the detector obtained by clicking on labels.

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http://www.cern.ch/Opal/tour/detector.html

How Smoke Detectors Work

A brief description of how Smoke Detectors work. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com. Some understanding of radioactivity is assumed.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/smoke.htm

Particle Detectors

Short explanations from Fermilab of various methods for detecting particles.

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http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/matter/smallest/detection.html

Hands On Cern

Standard model discussed simply, use of accelerators and detectors given, pictures of collisions also available.

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http://hands-on-cern.physto.se/hoc_v21en/index.html

Ridiculously Sensitive Charge Detector

Using a Field Effect Transistor (FET) to detect external electric fields. A circuit is built and tested.

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http://www.amasci.com/emotor/chargdet.html

7-Foot Bubble Chamber

Description of the first particle detector of its type in which the chamber through which the particles passed was surrounded by a superconducting magnet.

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http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/7_foot.asp

Haze-SPAN

These pages detail how to construct an electronic detector that can be pointed at the sun to quantify the amount of haze. A spreadsheet is also supplied to analyse the data.

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http://www.concord.org/haze/