Friday Flyer - May 15, 2015

Spotlight on the LHC Fellows: There is a group of QuarkNet teachers standing behind our educational work with data from the Large Hadron Collider. If you want to use authentic LHC data in the classroom, the LHC fellows are your fellows. The group includes Mike Wadness and Rick Dower of the Boston center, Mike Fetsko from Virginia, Shane Wood from Minnesota, Dave Trapp from Washington, Marla Glover of the Purdue center, and Evelyn Restivo of the SMU center. LHC fellows facilitate masterclass orientations, CMS and ATLAS data workshops, and CMS e-Lab workshops—and have had a strong hand in designing them as well. Contact Ken Cecire for more information.

News from QuarkNet Central: Time is running out! Make your submission by the end of this month to the Rock the LHC video contest! 

Physics Experiment Roundup: LHCb and CMS announce a new rare B meson decay. Meanwhile, out there in space, the NASA Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope may have found a dark matter candidate that can be reproduced in the LHC.

Resources: Our flat universe, from symmetry; a new video on Quark Gluon Plasma by Don Lincoln

Just for Fun: Most Beautiful Science Labs in the World, from Gizmodo

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