CMS e-Lab notes
Meeting of LHC fellows, 14 July 2013 Software suggestions: posters - student Saves but teacher Publishes hide posters if they have not done one? global/tracker muons in "Operations" level simple Z mass in "Training" level Eliminate telegaph paragraph about global/tracker - maybe…
CMS e-Lab suggested investigations
Introductory: J/Psi mass (must bin appropriately) compare Z-->mumu and Z-->ee Find how many peaks correseponding to real particles are in the 100k dimuon spectrum Show advantages and disadvantges of log x and log y plots Investigate use of bin widths to understand data…
CMS e-Lab Workshop Agenda Template, 14 July 2013
Objectives Workshop participants will: Identify particles colliding and emerging from collisions at the LHC from CMS data. Interpret the physical meaning of plots created from CMS data in light of conservation rules (energy, momentum, charge). Ask and answer questions about the physics of high…
Reflections on CMS Data Workshop at Rutgers 7/8-7/9/13
Introduction I thought the overview was a bit over the heads of the students and made the students uncomfortable. At this point some students might have been frustrated because they were looking forward to a two week program in which they would feel lost. As the week unfolded, this was…
Resources: AAPT Modern Physics in the High School Classroom
AAPT Summer Meeting 2013 Session AF Links: QuarkNet, / International Masterclasses, http://www.physicsmasterclasses.org QuarkNet e-Labs, http://www.i2u2.org/elab Particle Physics and More wiki, https://sites.google.com/site/306physics/home Sheldon learns to swim,…
Welcome to the Vanderbilt QuarkNet group!
Welcome to the Vanderbilt University QuarkNet Center group. To start, here are three things you can do right now: Create/edit your site profile (please do ASAP!) 1. In the top menu, roll over "My stuff" 2. Choose "My profile" 3. …
Welcome to the LBNL Center!
Welcome to the LBNL Center group. To start, here are three things you can do right now: Create/edit your site profile (please do ASAP!) 1. In the top menu, roll over "My stuff" 2. Choose "My profile" 3. Under your…
AAPT presentation on value of Masterclass video conferences
I'm giving a brief "talk" at the 2013 Summer AAPT physics conference in Portland about the value of students doing a video conference as part of their U.S. Masterclass experience. Masterclass is not only about understanding high energy physics content, but it also communicated the attitudes…