Friday Flyer - May 1, 2015

Spotlight on the LIGO e--Lab: Are you looking for a cool way for beginning physics students to use v = d/t? Perhaps you have an earth science class that might benefit from authentic seismic data? Then the LIGO e-Lab is a place you might want to look. LIGO is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory; they have not claimed observation of gravitational waves yet but they have recorded plenty of background, which for this experiment is seismic activity. And yes, we have an e-Lab for that, with the same general structure and philosophy as the Cosmic Ray and CMS e-Labs that you know well. To get advice and support on using this great resource, contact Dale Ingram.

News from QuarkNet Central: The QuarkNet calendar shows 15 different summer workshops—but we bet there are more. If you have not yet sent in the dates for your workshop, please e-mail them to Bob and Ken. This information is important for coverage; we'd like a QuarkNet staff member or fellow to visit as many of the workshops as possible. It is one of the important ways we all stay connected.

Physics Experiment Roundup: The single-electron cyclotron at Project 8 is used to study neutrino mass from beta decay. Meanwhile, the search for dark matter WIMPs goes DEAP at Sudbury.

Resources: Just where on the web is that famous and useful "CMS slice" web page? The CMS outreach folks at CERN point to the CMS animation on our own i2u2 server as the easiest to reach and use. Let's also not forget the equally cool ATLAS animation.

Just for Fun: You don't have to speak Polish to enjoy this mostly LEGO LHC video. 

QuarkNet Staff Teachers:
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Bob Peterson: rspete@fnal.gov