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Opportunities for students
Thursday 24 March 2011
The 16th to 18th of March saw hundreds of A-level students from across the country visiting ISIS to take part in the annual Particle Physics Masterclass.
Friday 09 April 2010
The 17-19 March 2010 saw over 300 A-Level students visiting ISIS to take part in the annual Particle Physics Masterclasses.
ISIS training courses
ISIS will be running a week-long training school on the use of muon spectroscopy starting on 19th March 2012. This will include a variety of lectures and workshops on the muon technique given by experienced researchers, and also the chance to perform muon experiments.
The ISIS Practical Neutron Training Course is aimed at PhD and post-doctoral researchers who have little or no experience of neutron scattering, but whose future research program aims to make use of neutron scattering techniques.
Video
Sean Langridge and Sarah Langridge explore instruments and beamlines at ISIS.
Steve Hull, Jon Randall and Ron Smith talk about the Polaris instrument at ISIS, one of the most advanced neutron instruments in the world.
Ania Paradowska and Joe Kelleher explore the Engin-X beam line, explaining how it works and its many uses.
Dr Philip King explains the mystery of that exotic particle, the muon. He explores how they are produced, what we do with them and why these 'spy particles' are useful!
The ISIS linear accelerator is only opened up every few years. This is a rare chance to take a look inside and see what it takes to keep a high-tech piece of technology gleaming.
See how neutrons and muons are produced in an animated overview.
Living in a material world
It is an amazing fact that your world and the atomic world are intimately connected by materials and their properties, even though you are about one thousand million times bigger than an atom! At ISIS we are fascinated by this idea.
