Finally, the ATLAS LEGO model world is also preparing for Run 4 with the ATLAS Run-4 model. Nathan Readioff designed a very nice upgraded version of the original ATLAS LEGO model. New sub-detectors, more details, more stability and quite a few more pieces .. find all the details, the manual, parts lists and 3D model files on the model page.
Together with their physics teacher Mr Wolf, the advanced physics course of the Kopernikus-Gymnasium in Duisburg built the ATLAS model designed by Sascha Mehlhase.
Over a period of 25 weeks, 14 dedicated students met with their teacher in their free time to bring the model to life, brick by brick. What started as a crazy idea developed into a meticulous and successful project that takes the passion for science and research at this school to a whole new level. The project was funded by the school’s booster club (Förderverein). Students and teachers are proud that Kopernikus-Gymnasium is one of the first schools in the world to successfully realise this fascinating project on its own. The model will be available to future generations of pupils to teach them about the fascination of particle physics.
Today, it was announced that the 2021 Outreach Prize of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division of the European Physics Society (EPS) is in part awarded to Sascha Mehlhase for setting up and running the ‘Build Your Open Particle Detector’ programme, reaching in particular (though not exclusively) a very young audience.
Obviously you can find out more on these pages here and hopefully we’ll soon again be able to sit down and build plastic-brick detector models and talk about (particle) physics …
Just before the whole COVID019 situation, students in the high-energy-physics group at Humboldt University Berlin put together their copy of the ATLAS LEGO model – one of more than 60 copies all over the world.
New label in use at KEK in Japan.I have recently updated the labels to put along with the original ATLAS LEGO model.
Three different labels are available in English and German, and I’ve just added a Japanese version for the overview label. If you need a label in your language, just let me know (and maybe help me translate them).