The National Particle Physics Masterclasses

March 23rd 2004

The Masterclass was attended by 60 pupils from Peter Symonds School Winchester

During the afternoon the students analyzed LEP events with two W bosons on computer to determine the number of quark colours. The worksheet for the computer lab is here and the events here . The two groups found the results:

Number of colours = 3.12 +/- 0.25