International Masterclasses - hands on particle physics

Each year about 10.000 high school students in 37 countries come to one of about 160 nearby universities or research centres for one day in order to unravel the mysteries of particle physics. Lectures from active scientists give insight in topics and methods of basic research at the fundaments of matter and forces, enabling the students to perform measurements on real data from particle physics experiments themselves. At the end of each day, like in an international research collaboration, the participants join in a video conference for discussion and combination of their results.

International Masterclasses 2013 have been held from 25.2. - 22.3.2013, U.S. Masterclasses were organized from 9.3. - 23.3.2013. See here for media coverage.

Discover the world of Quarks and Leptons with real data

This program is organized at TU-Dresden in the framework of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group IPPOG. The video linkup between the institutes is realized with valuable technical support from the Vidyo support at CERN IT. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from CERN, EPS HEPP High-Energy and Particle Physics Division of the European Physical Society, and from TU Dresden. An offline version of this website is available as DVD from the organizers and distributed to all participating students.