20–25 Aug 2023
Universität Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Particles in a pocket

21 Aug 2023, 09:00
13m
W221 (West wing)

W221

West wing

Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
Parallel session talk Outreach, Education and EDI T14 Outreach, Education and EDI

Speaker

Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University)

Description

Communicating science through mobile smartphone and tablet applications is one of the most efficient ways to reach general public of diverse background and age coverage. The Higgsy project was created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN in 2022. This project introduces a mobile game to search for the Higgs boson production in a generic particle physics detector. The MatterBricks mobile game was created for a major national event in Belgium, held in 2023, which is an augmented-reality project to learn about elementary particles. The talk will cover the main features of the two mobile applications and will give further prospects for reaching general public through mobile application development process.

Collaboration / Activity High-energy particle physics

Primary author

Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University)

Presentation materials