Bringing the LHC and ATLAS to a regional planetarium

Abstract

An outreach effort has started at Michigan State University to bring particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider, and the ATLAS experiment to a general audience at the Abrams planetarium on the MSU campus. A team of undergraduate students majoring in physics, communications arts & sciences, and journalism are putting together short clips about ATLAS and the LHC to be shown at the planetarium.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, presented at the 2011 meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Societ