2022 Cosmic Ray & ATLAS Data Workshop
Short URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/nmqn2022
July 26-29, 2022 (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM MT daily)
Location: New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque
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Detailed Daily Agenda:
Tuesday (7/26)
09:00 Opening session/coffee
- Introductions
- Registration & sign-in
- About QN & News from QN Central
- Survey and implementation (a look ahead to Friday)
- DAP: Data Activities Portfolio, strands
- Big to small
- DAP: Shuffling the Particle Deck
10:15 DAP: Making Tracks 1
10:45 BREAK
11:00 DAP: Rolling with Rutherford
11:45 Museum Presentation, Deb Novak
12 NOON - LUNCH
13:00 Cosmic Ray Session 1 (include a break)
- Vocabulary (90') - (word, pdf)
- BREAK (15')
- Jigsaw activity: Types of experiments (60')
- "Golden files"
- Slides: Using e-Lab without detector (ppt) (pdf)
15:45 End of day discussion
16:00 Adjourn for the day
Wednesday (7/27)
09:00 Planetarium Show - Please arrive a few minutes early
09:45 Coffee/daily opening
10:00 What is the LHC? ...ATLAS?
- Video clip: Introduction to the LHC (Don Lincoln) (5'50")
- Particle detector tutorial - link
10:45 BREAK
11:00 DAP: Mass of US Pennies
12:00 LUNCH
13:00 Cosmic Ray Session 2 (include a break)
- Slides: Intro to e-Lab (ppt) (pdf)
- Equip intro (start, stop, save, upload)
- Explore! Experiment!
- Collect data overnight
15:45 End of day discussion
16:00 Adjourn for the day
Thursday (7/28)
09:00 Coffee/daily opening
09:15 Video: A Day with Particles (~30 min.)
09:45 Finish DAP: Mass of US Pennies
10:45 Update QuarkNet.org account & BREAK
- Update QuarkNet.org profile
11:00 BREAK
11:15 Ramp-up to tomorrow's ATLAS analysis (BAMA)
- Slides: Intro to BAMA
- Analysis:
- HYPATIA 4 <------ event display
- Google form <------ report results here
- Spreadsheet <------ view collective results here
12:00 LUNCH
13:00 Cosmic Ray Session 3 (include a break)
- Analyze overnight data
- Curated files
- Experiments from TPT, including real research
- Intro to arrays
- Classroom applications
15:45 End of day discussion
16:00 Adjourn for the day
Friday (7/29)
09:00 Live! - Virtual Visit of ATLAS
- Recording Link: Click here
- Steven Goldfarb, ATLAS physicist
10:00 Big Analysis of Muons in ATLAS - ATLAS analysis (BAMA)
- Slides: Intro to BAMA
- Analysis:
- HYPATIA 4 <------ event display
- Google form <------ report results here
- Spreadsheet <------ view collective results here
11:00 Overview of World Wide Data Day (W2D2)
- Opportunity November 10, 2022
12:00 LUNCH
13:00 Closing discussion
- Implementation discussion
- Survey
- Survey Update OR
- Full Survey (if you did not complete full survey anytime in 2019-2021)
14:00 Explore the museum!
16:00 Workshop adjourns
Contacts
- Sally Seidel, UNM QuarkNet Mentor
- Shane Wood, QuarkNet Staff
- Nate Unterman, QuarkNet Cosmic fellow
- Deb Novak, NM Museum of Natural History & Science
Resources
General resources:
- Link: NMMNHS Museum Resources
- Link: Shared teacher participant resources & contacts
- Standard Model of Particle Physics
- Symmetry Magazine Standard Model article
- Symmetry Magazine: How to build your own detector
- The Particle Adventure
- PDGlive website
- Powers of Ten Video (Eames, 1977)
- Scale of the Universe Powers of Ten Video (Cosmic Voyage, 1996)
LHC/ATLAS resources:
- ATLAS website
- CERN: How a detector works
- Oxford physics: Particle Detectors
Cosmic Ray resources:
- Cosmic ray poster (ppt) (pdf)
- Lifetime "golden files" - (excel) (pdf)
- More "golden files" - (excel) (pdf)
- Speed of muon - (excel)
- Slides: Using e-lab without a detector - (ppt) (pdf)
- Slides: Counting studies without e-Lab - (ppt) (pdf)
- Slides: Helpful ideas (ppt) (pdf)
- How to use Equip (word) (pdf)
- CR Example Posters: poster 1, poster 2