Friday Flyer - May 19, 2017

Spotlight on the Cosmic Ray e-Lab: Want to have your class collect data on cosmic particles from supernovae using high-energy physics detectors? Try the Cosmic Ray e-Lab where students and teachers all over the world collect data on muons they observe that have been created in high-energy cosmic ray air showers. Students develop experiments and can measure the muon lifetime, speed of muons, and muon rates, as well as distributions in time and space of showers of multiple muons. Students can create an online poster in the e-Lab that they can submit in the QuarkNet e-Lab Poster Challenge! 

News from QuarkNet Central: Is your cosmic ray detector in need of some repair? Now is the time to get your detector up and running in preparation for summer workshops and for this summer's Solar Eclipse Cosmic Ray Project. Contact Dave Hoppert or Mark Adams to get the repair process going. Do this soon to beat the rush!

Physics Experiment Roundup: The LHC recently saw its first collisions of 2017; check out the update here. Learn about a new ATLAS precision measurement of the Higgs boson. Searching for WIMP dark matter, the XENON1T releases its first result. 

Resources: "Just the facts, ma'am." A symmetry article discusses how scientists try to stick to the facts and not expectations in their results. Yale theoretical astrophysicist Priya Natarajan gives a lecture at Fermilab on our ever-evolving cosmic view.

Just for Fun: No plans yet for Saturday night? Here's an idea . . . check out the Standard Model equation, deconstructed!

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