Friday Flyer - November 2, 2018
Spotlight on the Rice University/University of Houston QuarkNet Center
This Houston center held two major events in 2018: A CMS masterclass for students and a week-long summer workshop for teachers. The masterclass was held on March 24 with six students and two teachers in attendance. Students shuffled the particle cards, analyzed CMS data, and toured an upper-division undergraduate lab where an experiment was set up to measure the lifetime of muons. Twelve teachers met during the week of June 25–29 at Rice for a CMS data workshop and a neutrino data workshop prototype. During the week, teachers worked through several Data Portfolio activities, analyzed data from CMS and MINERvA, and attended talks on CMS and neutrino research. In addition to these activities in the Houston area, mentor Frank Guerts participated in a demonstration of the CMS masterclass at the 2018 Quark Matter Conference in Venice, Italy where over 800 scientists and students were in attendance.
News from QuarkNet Central
Registration is now complete for World Wide Data Day (W2D2) and looks like we've set a record, with nearly 80 registrations from almost 20 countries! For those who have registered, please sign up for a Vidyo test to be sure the videoconferece will work before the big day (Thursday, November 15). Check out the latest W2D2 Memo!
Keep in mind that International Cosmic Day is on November 29; then International Masterclasses (IMC) registration is not far behind. Here is the latest IMC circular and a direct link to the Fermilab videoconference schedule for masterclasses. Note that there are three MINERvA masterclass days listed in the Fermilab schedule. These are the first-ever neutrino masterclasses in IMC.
Physics Experiment Roundup
The LHC achieves record integrated luminosity as it winds down at the end of LHC Run 2. Learn how Fermilab's quantum science projects are moving ahead in Quantum Leap.
Resources
Curious about neutrinos? Then check out All Things Neutrino. What happens when a charged particle passes through a transparent material faster than light does? Find out the answer in Don Lincoln's new video on Cerenkov radiation. Also on Fermilab's YouTube channel, What is Dark Matter and Why Does it Matter?—a public lecture from Dan Bauer.
Just for Fun
Perhaps a bit late for Halloween this year, or very early for Halloween 2019: The Proton Smash! (Think, Monster Mash!) And lastly, the "science-y" side of soda: The fluid mechanics of bubbly drinks.
QuarkNet Staff:
Mark Adams: adams@fnal.gov
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu