Session 3 Links, Materials, Assignment

Particle Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

July 15, 2020

7pm - 9pm Eastern time

Learning objectives: In this lecture, we will finish the history of the Standard Model and discuss how physicists use colliders to probe fundamental particles and discover new particles such as the Higgs boson.

• Click here for the recording of Session 3.
• Click here for slides from Session 3.

Homework assignment (due July 15):

1. Explore the CMS e-lab: https://www.i2u2.org/elab/cms/home/
   • Click here for full instructions for the CMS assignment.
   • If you don't have an account, or if you forgot your account information, please sign in as a guest.
2. Make a Flip Grid video (approximately 3 minutes) describing one of the plots you made on the e-lab. Watch at least three other people’s videos describing what they did and be prepared to discuss.
   Link here: https://flipgrid.com/8014a6c3 (password sent via email)
3. Fill out the weekly course survey (link sent via email). Note that this step is required every week in order to self-report the number of hours spent so we can give you professional development credit. Please give me any feedback that would help make this course useful for you! I added a question this week if you have any favorite resources you want to share with others in the class. 

The homework should take approximately one hour to complete.

Additional resources 

• Additional discussion on the Heisenberg uncertainty activity (week 1 homework). Scroll to the end for additional links. 
  https://quarknet.org/content/note-consistency-complimentary-variabless

• QuarkNet activities using the D0 event displays, in case you want to use these in the future with your class:
  https://quarknet.org/data-portfolio/activity/calculate-top-quark-mass
  https://quarknet.org/data-portfolio/activity/case-hidden-neutrino
   
• Two neutrino experiment
  Article: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1988/9557-the-hunt-for-the-muon-neutrino/
   
• Experimental discovery of the neutrino
• Article: https://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/pages/Neutrino_Discovery.htm
   
• Discovery of the upsilon
  Article: https://history.fnal.gov/botqrk.html
   
• Feynman diagrams
  Blog: https://www.quantumdiaries.org/2010/02/14/lets-draw-feynman-diagams/
   
• Many resources on CMS can be found on the e-Lab:
  Videos, articles: https://www.i2u2.org/elab/cms/library/resources.jsp
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• How to read CMS event displays
  Article: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2010/03/16/cms-event-display-decoded
   
• The Higgs boson, explained
  Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joTKd5j3mzk