Friday Flyer - February 3, 2017

Spotlight on e-Lab Posters: The poster section of all three QuarkNet e-Labs—Cosmic, CMS, and LIGO—is a great resource to find ideas for student investigations and for students to report on their own research. Often, a group will see an intriguing poster which leads them to either test its conclusions or branch off into a related investigation. There are pleny of posters! Browsing around on a Friday afternoon reveals two interesting cosmic posters: one is a report on a Forbush decrease while the other descirbes an attempt to measure absorption of muons by water. And this CMS poster is about the upsilon particle while an intriguing poster from LIGO looks for a connection between seismic activity and the Deepwater Horizon accident. There is a lot more. Encourage students to search, read, investigate and write!

News from QuarkNet Central: Have you registered your masterclass group for an orientation or an update? Please do so! Check out the orientation page, then register for an orientation or update with the orientation registration form. Advertise too! Masterclass posters, logos and media templates are available for download and printing. The latest IMC circular is out, reminding you as well. And if you ever thought of taking your cosmic ray detector on the road, well, get inspired by this story, also in symmetry.

Physics Experiment Roundup: Interesting news is out there. For example, we've found that our chemistry colleagues are right; hydrogen really can be a metal. At Fermilab, the neutrino program is ramping up the power. At CERN, we have an intriguing LHCb result as reported in symmetry.

Resources: What do you have for us, Fermilab? Well, there is Fermilab's Greatest Hits by Chris Quigg, and Don Lincoln has a new video on future circular colliders.

Just for Fun: Ah, science fairs.

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