Accelerator Science

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Electron-Ion Collider

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Brookhaven National Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) uses powerful electric and magnetic fields to accelerate charged particles around 2.4-mile ring, helping scientists probe the fundamental building blocks of matter. In this session, students will use table-top particle accelerators with the help of BNL staff to track beams of electrons. They’ll collect and graph their data, determine the line of best fit, and calculate the charge-to-mass ratio of the electron — a key concept in accelerator design.

Vocabulary: acceleration, attract, charge, electron, energy, ion, magnetism, repel, speed

Session Information
90-minute session, times are flexible One class per session, maximum 30 students per class Can book multiple activities in one day $690 per session (BOCES-aidable)

To request field trip dates, visit https://oepreg.bnl.gov/.

To explore programs listed in the ESBOCES Exploratory Enrichment catalog and to submit a BOCES contract request, please visit BOCES EE – Brookhaven Lab

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New York State Standards

NYS Science Learning Standards: HS-PS2-5: Electric Current and Magnetic Fields

Disciplinary Core Ideas	Crosscutting Concepts	Science and Engineering Practices
PS2.B: Types of Interactions	Cause and Effect	Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards

11-12. WHST.6

Next Generation Mathematics Learning Standards

AI-N.Q.1
AI-N.Q.3

AP Physics 1 and 2

Physics 1 Essential Knowledge	Physics 2 Essential Knowledge
1B.3 The smallest observed unit of charge that can be isolated is the electron charge, also known as the elementary charge. 3.C.2 Electric force results from the interaction of one object that has an electric charge with another object that has an electric charge. 4.C.1 The energy of a system includes its kinetic energy, potential energy, and microscopic internal energy. Examples include gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy, and kinetic energy. 5.A.2 For all systems in all circumstances, energy, charge, linear momentum, and angular momentum are conserved. For an isolated or a closed system, conserved quantities are constant. An open system is one that exchanges any conserved quantity with its surroundings.	1.A.2 Fundamental particles have no internal structure. 1.A.3 Nuclei have internal structures that determine their properties. 1B.3 The smallest observed unit of charge that can be isolated is the electron charge, also known as the elementary charge. 2.C.5 Between two oppositely charged parallel plates with uniformly distributed electric charge, at points far from the edges of the plates, the electric field is perpendicular to the plates and is constant in both magnitude and direction. 2.D.1 The magnetic field exerts a force on a moving electrically charged object. That magnetic force is perpendicular to the direction of velocity of the object and to the magnetic field and is proportional to the magnitude of the charge, the magnitude of the velocity, and the magnitude of the magnetic field. It also depends on the angle between the velocity for angles of 0°, 90°, or 180° and qualitative for other angles. 3.C.2 Electric force results from the interaction of one object that has an electric charge with another object that has an electric charge. 3.C.3 A magnetic force results from the interaction of a moving charged object or a magnet with other moving charged objects or another magnet.

Physics 1 Essential Knowledge

Physics 2 Essential Knowledge

1B.3 The smallest observed unit of charge that can be isolated is the electron charge, also known as the elementary charge.

3.C.2 Electric force results from the interaction of one object that has an electric charge with another object that has an electric charge.

4.C.1 The energy of a system includes its kinetic energy, potential energy, and microscopic internal energy. Examples include gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy, and kinetic energy.

5.A.2 For all systems in all circumstances, energy, charge, linear momentum, and angular momentum are conserved. For an isolated or a closed system, conserved quantities are constant. An open system is one that exchanges any conserved quantity with its surroundings.

1.A.2 Fundamental particles have no internal structure.

1.A.3 Nuclei have internal structures that determine their properties.

1B.3 The smallest observed unit of charge that can be isolated is the electron charge, also known as the elementary charge.

2.C.5 Between two oppositely charged parallel plates with uniformly distributed electric charge, at points far from the edges of the plates, the electric field is perpendicular to the plates and is constant in both magnitude and direction.

2.D.1 The magnetic field exerts a force on a moving electrically charged object. That magnetic force is perpendicular to the direction of velocity of the object and to the magnetic field and is proportional to the magnitude of the charge, the magnitude of the velocity, and the magnitude of the magnetic field. It also depends on the angle between the velocity for angles of 0°, 90°, or 180° and qualitative for other angles.

3.C.2 Electric force results from the interaction of one object that has an electric charge with another object that has an electric charge.

3.C.3 A magnetic force results from the interaction of a moving charged object or a magnet with other moving charged objects or another magnet.

Teacher Information

These programs are registered with Eastern Suffolk BOCES

Program Topics

accelerators ATLAS EIC electricity exploration labs LHC magnets mathematics physical science physics RHIC

Program Audience

10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade 9th Grade

Accelerator Science

New York State Standards

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