Friday Flyer - May 13, 2016
Spotlight on the QuarkNet Fellows: We held off the Friday Flyer for a Monday release in order to update you on some weekend QuarkNet activity at Fermilab. The Cosmic, LHC, Leadership, and Teaching & Learning fellows, along with QuarkNet staff and evaluators (all pictured below) gathered this past Friday–Saturday in order to increase the quality, effectiveness, and consistency of all QuarkNet workshops. We learned about and discussed implementation of professional development best practices, and were able to perform "lesson studies" on a few activities from the Data Portfolio in which fellows were able to use both their "student hats" and "teacher hats." We were even able to capture a few images of the fellows in action, including building a histogram and discussing results for TOTEM Data Express and learning how to do a time-of-flight study using a cosmic ray muon detector.
News from QuarkNet Central: As you may have guessed from the "Spotlight" section above, the QuarkNet fellows and staff are more ready than ever to spread out to centers this summer to facilitate these workshops. We are looking forward to these experiences working with the teachers and mentors at centers all over the country. Mentors and lead teachers: It's not too late to schedule one of these workshops for this summer; just contact one of the QuarkNet staff if you're interested!
Physics Experiment Roundup: The LHC at CERN is back up and running beautifully as it begins its ambitious 2016 physics season in which physicists plan to collect six times more data than in 2015.. Here are some images from CMS at the start of the 2016 physics run.
Resources: Fermilab's Don Lincoln talks about the physics of g-2 in this YouTube video. Find out more about where mass comes from in this symmetry article.
Just for Fun: Check out this particle accelerator and collider of a different kind—using magnets and marbles! (Warning: You may have to endure a short advertisement at the beginning of this video, but it's worth it!)
QuarkNet Staff:
Mark Adams: adams@fnal.gov
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu