Friday Flyer - February 17, 2017

Spotlight on Idaho State: The Idaho State University QuarkNet Center is very involved in and dedicated to cosmic ray studies. They spent just about their whole summer 2016 workshop on plateauing, taking data, running experiments, and getting ready for classroom work with the detectors. (Well, they did visit the nearby Idaho Accelerator Center.) They made some great posters about time of flight, shower studies, muon flux, and more. Perusing their posters can give us some great ideas.

News from QuarkNet Central: Do you want to learn more about the CMS masterclass measurement? (It is changing, with new features and more data.) Connect to CMS Question Time on Wednesday, February 22, at 11:00 AM U.S. Central Time. What about ATLAS? ATLAS Question Time is on Monday at 10:00 PM Central.

HST applicants! Hang on; a decision is coming soon!

Physics Experiment Roundup: Astrophysicists can use gravitational lensing to measure the Hubble constant and SURF is getting a new, advanced dark matter detector. At CERN, they are finding that protons are stranger than we thought.

Resources: What is an engineering physicist? Spend a minute with Jerry Zimmerman of Fermilab to find out. But, you might reply, spring training has begun! What will interest our more baseball-minded students? Try this video by Jared Adelman, a QuarkNet mentor at Northern Illinois University. And if you want another fun neutrino video, ask symmetry.

Just for Fun: Take the last train to Weston? A Monkee visits Fermilab. While you're at the lab, Roger Dixon can share a story.

QuarkNet Staff:
Mark Adams: adams@fnal.gov
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu