Build Your Own Particle Detector

'Build Your Own Particle Detector' is a (particle) physics outreach programme created by @saschamehlhase using little plastic bricks in model and workshops.

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

Students at the Kopernikus-Gymnasium in Duisburg, Germany recently built one of the @ATLASexperiment models as part of school project!

Congratulations 👏

Find our more at:
https://t.co/7AMfP2sXT2

#BYOPD #particlephysics #scicomm

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

Students at Gustav-Heinemann-Oberschule in Berlin built the 18k-piece @ALICEexperiment #LEGO model as part of a physics project week. 👏

Find out more at https://t.co/R4Sq4vFxWS

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

Very nicely done 😁

[Chris Stark @tonysmyuncle]

I unfold just like the real JWST! 🌟 Want your own #LEGO #JWST? Click support at https://t.co/RzvqdqywLd to help make it happen!

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

Belle II is finally also available as a #LEGO micro model 😍
Find the details now also at https://t.co/hb4uRd1gQG
Congratz go to @torbenferber and his team!

[Belle II Deutschland @belle2germany]

Baue deinen eigenen #Belle2 Detektor aus #LEGO!
Wir stellen Euch die Teileliste (https://t.co/XlfpC0cuWv) und Aufbauanleitung (https://t.co/YgwnQsvv1H) zum kostenlosen Download bereit. Noch mehr Modelle findet ihr übrigens auf https://t.co/ZQJSMKvwOw! @belle2collab

[IPPOG @IppogOrg]

25 years of inspiration and dedication to #particlephysics. We have made a lot of progress, faced some difficulties, but we have never lost the desire to do particle physics outreach!

HB 🎂🎂🎂

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

There's also matching labels available in English, German, Japanese and now also simplified Chinese.
Thanks to Xiangyu for the latter.

➡️ https://t.co/wpRPnoJZD2

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

The 66th large @ATLASexperiment #LEGO model, designed by @saschamehlhase, has recently been built at @USTCGlobal.

Find out more at https://t.co/92o6frd3Ql

📷 Xiangyu Xie

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

The @ALICEexperiment #LEGO model version 2.0 has been built for the first time at @CERN earlier this month.

📸 @Julia_291

Find out more at https://t.co/Pw050IINY5
#scicomm #BYOPD #particlephysics

[Sascha Mehlhase @saschamehlhase]

I'm very happy and honoured to have received an @ATLASexperiment Outstanding Achievement Award this year. 😊
Today, I finally got the nice plaque. 😁

[Christian Klein-Bösing @ckleinb]

The first building of ALICE LEGO 2.0 starts this weekend. Second model @ALICEexperiment at CERN in July. Instructions @byopd

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

@TomRenrenko What do you think is missing?
As for the price, if you buy the parts from individual vendors at e.g. BrickLink you can get it for about 2k Euros.

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

The workshop that gave birth to the model was organised by @ALICEexpFSP_GER, @goetheuni, @WWU_Muenster and BYOPD and initiated by
@Neumondschaf, @ckleinb and @saschamehlhase.

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

The construction manual, parts lists and 3D files for the revised version of the @ALICEexperiment #LEGO model are finally available at https://t.co/xippuU1N0C, thanks to the hard work of the team (see credits via the link)!
#scicomm #particlephysics @CERN

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

Some impressions and first pictures of detector designs for the #ExpoCiencia 2022 event in Valencia last weekend are now online
https://t.co/A5XYTzd8w9

[Christian Klein-Bösing @ckleinb]

The spokesperson of @ALICEexperiment talked at the physics colloquium in Münster and inspects the first ALICE Lego Model in mini figure scale. More soon @byopd

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

We're at full speed at today's #EXPOCIÈNCIA 2022 at @parccientificuv in #Valencia.
Lots of great detector designs already ...

[Sascha Mehlhase @saschamehlhase]

On my way to #Valencia, Spain, for another @BYOPD event during the #EXPOCIÈNCIA 2022 at @parccientificuv tomorrow.
Looking forward to great new detector designs 😉

[Kate Shaw @KateShawOnline]

We are taking my favourite #LHC #LEGO of ALL to the @FestOfTomorrow! The tiny detectors fit in the palm of your hand! Too cute! Can you see which one is the @ATLASexperiment ??

Details of these & other big and small LHC lego detectors are here @byopd
https://t.co/BRKrbwrUph

[Build Your Own Particle Detector @byopd]

Related to this ... I still have spare parts for two/three @ATLASexperiment #LEGO models (https://t.co/cfWUfyQdfs) I used for exhibitions and school classes for ATLAS institutes .. let me know if you are interested!

[Sascha Mehlhase @saschamehlhase]

As some of you already know, after almost 17 years, I will more or less leave the @ATLASexperiment and @CERN by the end of the month.
Certainly a weird moment, as it's been a fantastic experience that for a long time I hoped would never end.

[Sascha Mehlhase @saschamehlhase]

@kratsg I'll happily bring the bricks back to particle physics and @BYOPD will stay alive (if people are still interested).
And we are still working on an @ALICEexperiment #LEGO model 😉