Netherhall CROCS

Netherhall CROCS meets on Thursdays after school, starting Thursday 17 November
(from 3:10 to 4:30pm) in L10
The club is open to any pupil studying Science GCSE, Physics GCSE, or Physics A level.

CROCS is a special and exciting project: we will be making Cosmic Ray Particle Detectors using equipment from CERN (the European Particle Physics Laboratory). The results from our detectors will be combined with those from other schools taking part in the project (initially in Cambridgeshire, perhaps later from across the country). To date, astronomers do not know much about where in the Universe cosmic rays are coming from from or how they are actually produced. CROCS will help to answer these questions.

This will be our second major joint project working with the University of Cambridge High Energy Physics Group. Click the link to read about our last collaboration with the University of Cambridge High Energy Physics Group: Smashing Particles.