Secondary school students taking part in the Big Data: ATLAS project have had their results published in the European Physical Journal Plus.
is an award-winning schools research partnership between the Institute for Research in Schools, the 91̽»¨â€™s Department of Physics and the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for UK state schools and colleges. Online resources provide training in using Python to access and manipulate real-time data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider so that students can help to find evidence of the Higgs boson – and much more. After three months of developing their skills and seeing the data, students are then 91̽»¨ed to develop their own research idea using the ATLAS data.
Results from some of the participating students’ own research projects have now been published in a scientific journal. Professor Alan Barr leads the project at the Department of Physics: ‘The students demonstrated remarkable creativity and curiosity in designing their projects and to have their results published in a scientific journal is testament to how committed they were to the project. Their work was really impressive.’
, E Conroy et al, European Physical Journal Plus