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LEVEL 3 LABORATORY
High Energy Physics
Introduction
The High Energy Physics laboratory offers level 3 students the opportunity of working with instrumentation commonly found in the nuclear industry and also in environmental monitoring of radioisotopes in the environment. Many of the projects involve an investigation the spectroscopy of radiation emitted by radioisotopes and students may study sealed radioactive sources, kept within the laboratory. In some projects the students are encouraged to develop apparatus. The projects have some specific goals but also allow for further investigation and it is often the case that students push their experiments in new and interesting directions. For example, two students decided to modify the existing high energy electron spectrometer to improve the resolution of their experiments. Another group used gamma rays to image the internal structure of medieval bones on loan from the Department of Archaeology.