International Projects
Submitted by kcecire
on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 15:05
Description
QuarkNet projects in collaboration with our partners outside the U.S.
QuarkNet 日本 Workshops 2017
Small URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/qnj2017.
Workshop schedule
Date(s) | City | Location (link to agenda) | Times | Remarks |
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土曜日1月14日 - Sat 14 Jan
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静岡市 - Shizuoka City | Shizuoka-kita HS | 13:00~17:00 | |
月曜日1月16日 - Mon 15 Jan
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仙台 - Sendai | Sendai Dai-Ichi HS | 09:00~18:30 | |
水曜日1月18日 - Wed 18 Jan
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埼玉 - Saitama | Waseda Honjyo HS | 13:50~18:40 | |
木曜日1月19日 - Thu 19 Jan
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東京 - Tokyo | Kaijo HS | 15:30~18:00 | |
金曜日1月20日 - Fri 20 Jan
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東京 - Tokyo | Hiroogakuen | 11:40~13:10 | |
土曜日1月21日 - Sat 21 Jan
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東京 - Tokyo | Todai Workshop Day 1 | 09:00~17:00 | |
日曜日1月22日 - Sun 22 Jan
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東京 - Tokyo | Todai Workshop Day 2 | 09:00~17:00 |
Resources
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Workshop Plans
- One computer per two students
- One protractor per two students
- Print one per two students: W2D2 tally sheets
- Post-it notes
- Set of dice
- Print one set per 10 students: muon lifetime plots
- Rulers
Time, JST - January 14, 2017 | Activity |
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13:00 13:30 14:45 15:00
16:45 17:00 |
Greetings and Warm-up Study of muons in ATLAS data (W2D2 measurement) Discussion Muon Lifetime experiments
Final discussion End of workshop |
- One computer per two students or ATLAS Data PDF
- One protractor per two students
- Print one per two students: W2D2 tally sheets
- Post-it notes
- Cosmic ray detector
Time, JST - January 16, 2017 | Activity |
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Morning class Afternoon class After school |
Study of muons in ATLAS data (W2D2 measurement) Study of muons in ATLAS data (W2D2 measurement) Cosmic ray studies:
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- One computer per two students
- One protractor per two students
- Print one per two students: W2D2 tally sheets
- Post-it notes
- Cosmic ray detector
- Desk or table
- Meter stick
Time, JST - January 18, 2017 | Activity |
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13:50 14:00 15:30 16:15 16:30 17:00 18:00 18:40 |
Greetings Cosmic Time-of-Flight experiment prep (calibration and set-up) Intro to LHC - particle cards and slides break Continue Time-of-Flight experiment; upload data; reset Study of muons in CMS data (CMS W2D2 measurement)(slides) Conclude and analyze Time-of Flight data End of workshop |
- One computer per two students
- Cosmic ray detector
- Cart for transporting detector
Time, JST - January 19, 2017 | Activity |
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15:30 15:40 16:40 17:30 18:00 |
Greetings Detector calibration Muon absorbtion experiment Discussion End of workshop |
Time, JST - January 29, 2017 | Activity |
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11:40 11:50 12:10 12:55 13:10 |
Greetings and Warm-up Intro to LHC Quark workbench and Rolling with Rutherford Discussion End of workshop |
Time, JST - January 21, 2017 | Activity |
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09:00 09:15 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 13:15
14:45 15:00 15:30 16:30 17:00 |
Greetings Needs assessment Videoconference with Virtual Center members Create and discuss project ideas lunch Greetings (more members will join) Level 1-2 Activities break Level 1-2 reports Cosmic ray activities Reflections and discussion End of day |
Time, JST - January 22, 2017 | Activity |
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09:00 10:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 |
Warm up Level 2 Activity: ATLAS Masterclass (downloads and information) lunch Neutrinos and ILC Level 3 Activities: e-Labs Open discussion, Q&A, and planning End of workshop |
W2D2 Videoconferences
02 December 2016
Page Navigation: Notes Schedule Plan Questions
To participate in a videoconference, a group must register and be scheduled. Registration is now closed. To request an exception, contact the coordinator directly.
Notes and Instructions:
- Videoconferences will use Vidyo. For instructions on how to use Vidyo, please go to the Masterclass Library Vidyo page.
- Videoconference connections will be made using the link from the World Wide Data Day 2016 Indico page.
- Students do not need to report results in the videoconference. Rather, they should prepare short comments on how the measurement went, any surpises they found, or questions they have about the measurement. This short (~2 min) report is followed by moderators comments on the results so far and a Q&A. Please see the Videoconference Plan below.
- Prior to the videoconference, the teacher should help the students prepare questions and comments indicated in item 3 above. The teacher or a designee should also connect 5 min early to the videoconference to deal with any potential problems with the connection.
Schedule of Videoconferences:
This schedule will also appear in the World Wide Data Day 2016 Indico page.
No more than four groups will be accepted per videconference.
Time (UTC) | Moderating Institution (local time) | Participating Institutes (local time) | Measurement | Moderators |
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04:30 | Adelaide (15:00) | Adelaide* (15:00), Fukuoka* (13:30) | CMS | Jackson |
11:30 | CERN (12:30) | Fermo (12:30), Norrtälje* (12:30), Almodôvar* (11:30) | ATLAS | Carli |
12:00 | CERN (13:00) | Attiki* (14:00), | ATLAS | Carli |
12:30 | CERN (13:30) | Athens* (14:30) | ATLAS | Carli |
13:20 | Mayaguez (09:20) | Lisboa Externato Marista (13:20), Rossville* (08:20) | ATLAS/CMS | Malik |
14:00 | Mayaguez (10:00) | Porto Luso-Frances* (14:00), Hérouville Saint Clair* (15:00) | CMS | Malik |
14:40 | Fermilab (08:40) | Winamac* (09:40), Lisboa Salesianos* (14:40), Porto-Casa-Mãe* (14:40) | CMS | James |
15:30 | CERN (16:30) | Madeira* (15:30) | ATLAS | David |
16:10 | CERN (17:10) | Águeda* (16:10) | CMS | David |
17:30 | Fermilab (11:30) | Medford* (12:30), Patuxent* (12:30) | CMS | Albrow |
18:10 | Fermilab (12:10) | Medellín (13:10) | ATLAS | Kreis |
23:30 | Notre Dame (18:30) | Shanghai (07:30, Dec 3) | CMS | Cecire |
* Vidyo test completed.
Videoconference Plan:
Part | Time* | Activity |
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0 | 5 min prior to start | Test connections, address problems |
1 | START | Introductions and Greetings |
2 | 5 min after start | Student comments and questions on measurement |
3 | 10 min after start | Moderators discuss overall results |
4 | 15 min after start | Q&A |
5 | 30 min after start | end |
* Times are flexible (except start) and not all videoconferences will take the full 30 minutes.
Questions? Contact us!
Register for W2D2
02 December 2016
Register your group here for World Wide Data Day!
Notes and Instructions:
- World Wide Data Day 2016 will be held from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC on 2nd December 2016. When you convert to your local time zone, some of this interval may fall on 1st or 3rd December, depending on your location and the time.
- You may convert times at https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html.
- Registration should be done by the leader of your W2D2 team. Usually, this is the teacher in a school.
- Please note that the first 6 items in the Registration form are required.
- Student videoconferences with TRIUMF, CoEPP, CERN, and Fermilab are up to 30 minutes long. Times are assigned in advance. You should choose the interval(s) in which your group is available for a videoconference. Each interval is 2 hours long; your videoconfernce will be assigned with one of the intervals you choose. If you need to express your time more specifically, please add a comment at the end of the form. Make sure you convert between UTC and your own time zone!
Access the registration form here: https://goo.gl/forms/F6OUqzju1EcsMI812.
Registration is due by 12:00 UTC on Monday 7th November 2016.
Questions? Contact us!
ATLAS muon track distribution measurement
Introduction
In this measurement, students find the directional distribution of muon track in ATLAS. They are searching for:
- anomalies in the distribution that might indicate a bias in the detector or in the data
- clues to how particles that result from collisions behave in ATLAS and the LHC.
Students should be divided into small groups. Each group should have a tally sheet. They should study the sheet before beginning.
Student Procedure
- Open the W2D2 Report (Google) Spreadsheet and go to the ATLAS tab. Read the warnings!
- Open HYPATIA 2 and find the data. View the screencast for help.
- Choose the dataset assigned by your teacher. If you do not have a teacher or a physicist working with you, e-mail us for assistance choosing a dataset - the sooner the better.
- Advance through the events, only stopping for dimuons. Dimuon events have two long tracks that pass into to blue muon chambers in one or both of the two views. All else is treated as background.
- For each dimuon event, look at each muon track in the forward (x-y) view on the left and measure angle PHI from the +x axis. PHI runs all the way around the beamline (z axis) from 0 to 360 degrees. Then switch to the side (y-z) view on the right and measure angle THETA in the same way for each muon track. THETA runs from 0 to 180 degrees either clockwise or anti-clockwise from the +z axis, whichever is the shortest path to the track. Note that you will need a protractor to make the measurement and that you should be careful to measure the angle in x-y from the tangent to the curvature of the track closest to the vertex or center of the event. (There is another way but it requires some manipulation and calculation.)
- Place tick marks for each angle measured in the tally sheet, using the closest values that appear in the sheet. (For example, 17 degrees is closest to 10 and 23 degrees is closest to 30.) This will allow us to record numbers of events in bins representing 20 degree intervals.
- When you are finished with your dataset, add up the number of tick marks in each bin of PHI and each bin of THETA and make a histogram of each on the back of your sheet, Then record the same numbers in your line of the W2D2 Report Spreadhseet. Also be sure to record your dataset in column D.
- Take a look at (but do not edit or interfere with) the plots at the bottom of the page in the spreadsheet (scroll down to line 158). Discuss results you see in class or in your group. Prepare questions for your videoconference.
Images
Dimuon event in HYPATIA online: forward (x-y) view to the left and side (y-z) view to the right.
"Background" event in HYPATIA online: same x-y and z-y views.The long dashed red line in the x-y view of each event represents "ETMiss" (not a muon track) and can be ignored in this measurement.
CMS muon track distribution measurement
Introduction
In this measurement, students find the directional distribution of muon track in CMS. They are searching for:
- anomalies in the distribution that might indicate a bias in the detector or in the data
- clues to how particles that result from collisions behave in CMS and the LHC.
Students should be divided into small groups. Each group should have a tally sheet. They should study the sheet before beginning.
Student Procedure
- Open the W2D2 Report (Google) Spreadsheet and go to the CMS tab. Read the warnings!
- Open iSpy-online and find the masterclass-2015 data. View the screencast for help.
- Choose the dataset assigned by your teacher. If you do not have a teacher or a physicist working with you, e-mail us for assistance choosing a dataset - the sooner the better.
- For each dimuon event, look at each muon track in the forward (x-y) view on the left and measure angle PHI from the +x axis. PHI runs all the way around the beamline (z axis) from 0 to 360 degrees. Then switch to the side (y-z) view on the right and measure angle THETA in the same way for each muon track. THETA runs from 0 to 180 degrees either clockwise or anti-clockwise from the +z axis, whichever is the shortest path to the track. Note that you will need a protractor to make the measurement and that you should be careful to measure the angle in x-y from the tangent to the curvature of the track closest to the vertex or center of the event. (There is another way but it requires some manipulation and calculation.)
- Place tick marks for each angle measured in the tally sheet, using the closest values that appear in the sheet. (For example, 17 degrees is closest to 10 and 23 degrees is closest to 30.) This will allow us to record numbers of events in bins representing 20 degree intervals.
- When you are finished with your dataset, add up the number of tick marks in each bin of PHI and each bin of THETA and make a histogram of each on the back of your sheet, Then record the same numbers in your line of the W2D2 Report Spreadhseet. Be sure to list the dataset under Column D; if you stopped before 100 events, add "to" and the event number of your last event (e.g. "masterclass_1.ig to 523462752") so that someone else can consider picking it up from that point if they want to.
- Take a look at (but do not edit or interfere with) the plots at the bottom of the page in the spreadsheet (scroll down to line 158). Discuss results you see in class or in your group. Prepare questions for your videoconference.
Images:
Choose the image to enlarge:
Cosmic Ray Workshop at Hillside School, Addis Ababa
22-23 August, 2016
Compact URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/cr16hillside.
Pre-workshop
- Read ahead: Cosmic Extremes
- Download EQUIP and USB-UART driver.
- Explore Cosmic Ray e-Lab on your own
- Request cosmic ray e-Lab account
- Consult punch list: be sure we have all we need
Goals
- Each teacher is able to use the cosmic ray detector or the cosmic ray e-Lab in a simple activity with students.
- Teachers can plan and do cosmic ray research with students.
- Teachers begin a plan for continued work together.
Agenda
Monday 22 August | Tuesday 23 August |
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11:00 Welcome and Registration 11:15 Introduction to Cosmic Rays (Dr. Tilahun Tesfaye) 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Cosmic Ray Detector demonstration 14:00 Brief introduction to the Cosmic Ray e-Lab 15:00 New Detector construction and commisioning 17:00 Set up detector for special overnight data-taking 17:30 Reflections on the day 17:45 close for day
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11:00 Muon lifetime activity (plots) 11:30 Detector performance check
12:00 Lunch 13:00 Upload and analyze data
13:30 Review posters in Cosmic Ray e-Lab 14:00 Research
15:30 Create posters 16:00 Poster presentations 16:30 Discussion
17:00 Reflection and Evaluation 17:15 Final data uploads, pack up detectors 17:30 end of workshop |
ResourcesMost resources you need are found in the Cosmic Ray e-Lab. Follow the path Student Home > Library > Resources. Here are a few addtional resources:
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Contacts |
Addenda
How to download and install EQUIP
- Go to Cosmic Ray e-Lab
- Go to Student Home; log with your credentials or as a guest
- Go to Library and then Resources
- Find link under CRMD Data Collection and follow
- Download EQUiP and uncompress
- Read README
How to download and install USB-UART adapter software
- Go to Silicon Labs CP-210x page
- Find OS for youir computer and choose download link
- Install
iSPI Fermilab and CMS Prep
Small URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/ispi-fnal.
Fermilab and Acclerators
Experimental Partlcle Physics: Measuring what we cannot see
- Rolling with Rutherford
- Accelerating Marbles
CMS - Calculating Z Mass
Example 1: Muons in 2 dimensions
Example 2: Electrons in 3 dimensions
Supplementary material
Fermilab Slides and Discussion
- Try to find it on a map
- New questions
Investigating accelerators
(use this Google sheet and online resources)
- Group 1: Hadron Colliders
- Group 2: Electron Colliders
- Group 3: Light Sources
- Group 4: Cyclotrons
Questions for each group:
- What is it? (Google it!)
- How does accelerator size affect energy? (Make plots and find out.)
Playing with particles
- Quark Puzzle
- Particle Cards
CMS Masterclass at Hillside School, Addis Ababa
August 20, 2016
Compact URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/cms16hillside.
DRAFT Agenda09:00 Greetings and start
09:45 Introduction to Particle Physics (Dr. Claudia Frugiele) 10:30 Break 10:45 Rolling with Rutherford 11:30 Introduction to CMS (Dr. Thomas McCauley) 12:00 Lunch 12:50 After-lunch Video 13:00 CMS WZH measurement 15:30 Discuss results; Q&A 15:50 Closing Video 16:00 End of day |
Resources
Contacts |
Particle Physics preparation for Notre Dame QuarkNet students
Hello students!
Whether you are working on QuarkNet summer research or will do an intensive two weeks of particle physics in the International Summer Physics Institute (iSPI), these resources will help you to learn more about the work you will be doing and the excitement of particle physics.
Read and experience:
- The Particle Adventure. This is one of the best-known and most-used sites for learning about particle physics. Pick any one of the pathways (there are five in the English version) and take it as far as you like!
- Cosmic Extremes. This is the PDF of a very useful booklet on cosmic rays.
- The QuarkNet Cosmic Ray e-Lab. Log in as a guest to the Student Home and you will be directed to the Project Map (it looks a little like a metro system map). Choose the light blue dots in the "Get Started" section and follow the resource links. Also try out the orange Cool Science dot!
- The QuarkNet CMS e-Lab. Log in as a guest to the Student Home and you will be directed to the Project Map (it looks a little like a metro system map). Choose the light blue dots in the "Get Started" section and follow the resource links. Also try out the orange Cool Science dot!
Watch the videos:
The Standard Model (Don Lincoln) |
The Higgs Boson (Don Lincoln) |
Statistics Explained (Don Lincoln) |
The LHC Experiments (Don Lincoln) |
Eintein's Clocks (Don Lincoln) |
Large Hadron Rap (Alpine Kat) |
Calculating Pi with Darts (Physics Girl) |
Cosmic Rays - Veronica Bindi |
Gravitational Waves Explained (PhD Comics) |
Find more videos by:
Ask us stuff!
African School of Physics 2016 Outreach Program
Small URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/asp16eo.
This program is made possible by the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications.
Calendar of Events:
Fri 12 Aug | Sat 13 Aug | Tue 16 Aug | Wed 17 Aug | Thu 18 Aug |
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09:30-17:00 CAT ICTP Kigali |
09:30-13:00 CAT ICTP Kigali |
14:00-17:30 CAT
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14:00-17:30 CAT |
14:00-17:30 CAT |
Ethiopia Extrension:
Resources: |