On May 16, 2024, the Research and Technology Center for Detector Physics (FTD) at the University of Bonn hosted a workshop for pupils and students to build their own small particle detectors. The participants built their own small particle detectors under the direction of Sebastian Laudage (AG Prof. Florian Bernlochener) and Dr. Maike Hansen.
On April 22, 2024, Prof. Lena Funcke was a guest at the Particle Café at the University of Bonn to talk to interested pupils and students.
From April 15 to 17, 2024, the workshop on communicating the physics of the smallest particles took place at the Physics Center in Bad Honnef. In theoretical and practical sessions, the participants were given various methods and materials to successfully communicate particle physics.
This time's guest: Prof. Dr. Lena Funcke
Homemade Cosmic Watch detectors were sent into the stratosphere by two Fellows from Bonn (Jana Pöhler and Marvin Gehrke) and their physics class using a weather balloon.
25 students and doctoral students from the field of particle physics built their own small particle detectors. As part of a workshop at the Color Meets Flavor School at the DPG Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef, they soldered, tinkered and screwed things together to gain an even better understanding of the detector principle and implement it themselves using a small example.