A subatomic particle called a kaon decays into other particles that leave distinct spirals in this bubble chamber image from the 1970s. CERN In the same decade, particle accelerators came to the fore.

Have students read about how particle tracks are created on their "Tracking Particle Paths" student handouts and answer the questions on the "Bubble Chamber Basics" student handout.

To find the perfect bubble chamber image to recreate, Klapper and Gallagher scrolled through hundreds of these photographs in the archive at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator ...

In the early days of high-energy physics, bubble chambers were a staple; but in the past two decades, scintillating wire and gas chambers proved more versatile and effective in particle detection, ...

Particles that elude collision leave straight, parallel tracks. This classic 1960 photograph shows tracks in the first liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber at CERN, the European laboratory for particle ...

Donald Glaser, a Nobel laureate who invented the bubble chamber, a much-used device for making visible the invisible world of subatomic particles, died Feb. 28 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He ...

Images of 'Big Bang' experiments inside particle accelerators. UK News Website of the Year ...

The bubble chamber was invented in ... Particle physicists were then facing the challenge of understanding the 'strange particles' that had been spotted in cloud-chamber tracks of cosmic rays ...

Have students read about how particle tracks are created on their "Tracking Particle Paths" student handouts and answer the questions on the "Bubble Chamber Basics" student handout.