OUR OUTREACH PROJECTS
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New insight into elusive antimatter can unravel universe’s mysteries
New insight into elusive antimatter can unravel universe’s mysteries The recent first observation of an optical transition in antihydrogen is put in context for the uninitiated, starting with discussion of what antimatter is and why it is of interest and how the new measurement will help advance our understanding.
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Article for Kvant: The Search for Antigravity
Article for Kvant: The Search for Antigravity One of our members, Peter Granum, has written an outreach article for the journal of the Danish Physics and Astronomy Society: KVANT. The article explains what antimatter is and why it is important to examine. Furthermore, it describes how we are going to measure if antimatter “falls upwards”…
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Talk and Demonstration for A Level College Physics Students
Talk and Demonstration for A Level College Physics Students ALPHA PhD student Siara Fabbri gave a one hour talk and demonstration on antimatter physics to fifteen A level physics students at Furness College and Barrow Sixth Form located in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Barrow-in-Furness is considered to be a highly deprived area in England, that was one…
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EPSRC Showcasing Physical Sciences Impact Event 2019
EPSRC Showcasing Physical Sciences Impact Event 2019 Three members of the ALPHA collaboration, PhD student Siara Fabbri, Post Doctoral Researcher (PDR) April Cridland and Professor Michael Charlton, showcased how the antimatter experiments are impacting the public in terms of economics, culture, knowledge, and people, at the EPSRC Impact Event 2019 located at the Institute of…
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AVA Outreach Symposium 2019 in Liverpool
AVA Outreach Symposium 2019 in Liverpool Together with other Accelerators for Science and Society (AVA) early stage researchers, PhD student Siara Fabbri demonstrated two radiofrequency (RF) ion traps to delegates, comprising of 100 researchers from across Europe and 150 students and teachers from local high schools. (…could be more text… what is a radiofrequency ion…
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I’m A Scientist… Get Me Out of Here!
I’m A Scientist… Get Me Out of Here! In November 2019, ALPHA postdocs Mark Johnson and Muhammed Sameed took part in “I’m A Scientist… Get Me Out of Here!”, an online event promoting physics and STEM (= science, technology, engineering, mathematic) subjects to school students from across the UK. Over the course of two weeks,…
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RSSSE July 2016 – Enhancement Cavity
RSSSE July 2016 – Enhancement Cavity Since the UV lasers, required to do antihydrogen spectroscopy, are difficult to make and not very powerful, we use an enhancement cavity to “enhance” the laser power. When the cavity mirrors are separated by a half-integer multiple of the laser wavelength, the cavity is resonant and forms a standing…