Spotlight on the Purdue University Northwest QuarkNet Center
The Purdue Northwest Center meets in the summer at PNW campuses in Hammond and Westville, Indiana. You may remember them as the Purdue Calumet Center, but some reorganization and consolidation gave the center a new name. The group met at both campuses last summer, concluding with a neutrino physics workshop in which the teachers and students measured the lifetimes of muons that came from a beam of muon neutrinos hitting a target in the MINERvA experiment. This spring, the Center is active as ever in International Masterclasses. Neeti Parashar will lead their masterclass tomorrow, Saturday, April 7. She also moderates a masterclass videoconference from Fermilab on April 21.
News from QuarkNet Central
Mentors and Lead Teachers: If you have not completed the 2018 RFP response form using the link that Ken or Shane e-mailed to you, please get to it now. The final deadline is this Tuesday. After that, QuarkNet summer 2018 funding will be unavailable. Also, please submit nominations for this summer's Data Camp if you have not already done so. Contact Ken or Shane with your questions.
Physics Experiment Roundup
CERN is in the news. Reports in symmetry discuss the CERN Control Centre (CCC) and the amazing LHC cryogenics. Also at CERN, the ALPHA experiment reaches milestones in the study of antimatter. Beyond CERN and the LHC, the BBC discusses a future Higgs factory with Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer.
Resources
What about the resource, the one every particle physicist carries (nowadays, on a smartphone)? Yup, the PDG, as profiled in symmetry. View or get your own PDG online.
Just for Fun
Subatomic Smackdown over! Particular champ chosen! Learn the fundamentals in symmetry.
Last Sunday was April Fool's Day at Fermilab. That is all.
QuarkNet Staff:
Mark Adams: adams@fnal.gov
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Deborah Roudebush: droudebush@cox.net
Jeremy Smith: jsmith10@bcps.org
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu