2022 Syracuse University Workshop

  08:45  Coffee/Sign-in

  09:00  Welcome & Intros.

• Registration
• Intros/Check-in
• News from QuarkNet Central
• A look ahead

  09:45  DAP: Rolling w/ Rutherford

• A twist on a QuarkNet classic! (Use different sizes of rolling balls.)
• Slides for the "classic" RwR
• Student mode - teacher mode
• How does this activity connect to the standards?

  10:45  BREAK

  11:00  Talk: cross-section in particle physics (slides)

  08:45  Coffee/Sign-in

  09:00  QN Logistics

• CRMD check-in
  • e-Lab
  • Int'l Cosmic Day (DESY-Nov. 2022)
  • Int'l Muon Week (QN-Spring 2023)
• QuarkNet Account Update
• Share-a-thon (tomorrow)
• Big to small

  09:30  DAP: Shuffling the Particle Deck

• Does the Higgs fit in?

  10:00  Tutorial: Where's Higgs?

• Link

  11:00  Talk: Standard Model & Higgs update (slides)

    Video: LHC (Don Lincoln)

    Begin Intro Slides below (if time permits)

  08:45  Coffee/Sign-in

  09:00  LIGO talk & lab tours

  10:15  Particle accelerators & E/M

• Video: Accelerators (TED-Ed/Don Lincoln)
• DAP: Making it Round the Bend, Quantitative OR Qualitative (Shane)
  • Linearizing data: link 1, link 2
• DAP: Mapping the Poles (Brian)

  11:45  Talk: Lepton Universality (links to ppt, keynote)

• Link to "Flavour at Zurich" YouTube channel
• Link to recommended "short documentary"

  Check "Parking Lot" for questions

  13:00  The Data Activities Portfolio (DAP)

• A tour
• Connection to standards
• New activities...more on the way

  13:30  DAP: Mass of US Pennies

• Google Form
• Output (spreadsheet)

  14:00  HEP Lab Tour

  15:00  Adjourn for the day

  13:00  Search for Higgs in CMS Data

• Intro slides
• Z-mass activity (new twist!)
  • Data
  • Calculator
  • MassCalc spreadsheet (make a copy; first tab now)
• Search for Higgs
  • iSpy for Higgs@10
  • Use next tab(s) in your MassCalc spreadsheet (link above)
  • Results form
    • Output
  • Example spreadsheet for open data tab complete + plot

15:00  Adjourn for the day

 Optional homework:

• Higgs@10 Python analysis
  • Answer key

  ~Lunch  Share-A-Thon

• Link

  Discussion:

• How we teach "laws" in physics

  14:00  Closing session

• Implementation discussion
• Survey
  • Full Survey
  • 2022 Survey Update (For those who have already completed full survey at some point since 2019.)

  15:00  Workshop ends