Friday Flyer - September 16, 2016

Spotlight on the Colorado State University QuarkNet Center: This QuarkNet center located in Fort Collins is now in its fifth year. Lead teachers Cherie Bornhorst and Adam Pearlstein along with mentor Bob Wilson organized the 2016 teacher workshop that was held on June 13-17. That week coincided with the U.S. Particle Accelerator Summer School (held at CSU this year), so teachers were able to participate by attending some of the morning lectures associated with the USPAS. Teachers also spent time working through resources in the Data Portfolio (including TOTEM Data Express), running lifetime and time-of-flight studies using cosmic ray detectors, and sharing teaching resources in a teacher share-a-thon. One highlight of this share-a-thon was a lab setup for the Milliken experiment; something the group hopes to work more on next year. 

News from QuarkNet Central: A couple of reminders:

(1) All teachers and mentors, please be sure you have recently updated your profile on the QuarkNet website, including your school and contact information along with a record of your CRMD DAQ number (if you have a cosmic ray muon detector). If you're not sure how to do this, refer to this "how to" page on updating your profile. Please be sure to scroll to the bottom of the "edit your profile" page in order to enter the DAQ number from your cosmic ray detector. If you have any questions regarding this process, feel free to contact Ken or Shane. And don't forget to 'save.'
 

(2) Mentors and other center leaders, QuarkNet deliverables were due yesterday (Thursday, September 15). If you have not done so, please submit these ASAP. Here is a helpful guide and here is a document on submitting abstracts and annual reports.

Physics Experiment Roundup: The LHC MoEDAL experiment recently published its first paper on the search for magnetic monopoles. Find out more about magnetic monopoles in this symmetry article.

Resources: Which is better? Colliding two beams of particles or sending a single particle beam toward a fixed target? Find out in Don Lincoln's short video, Accelerator Science: Collider vs. Fixed Target. Know a student who might be good at explaining a science or math concept in a short film? If so, check out the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, in which students have the opportunity to win a $250,000 scholarship and a new lab for your school!

Just for Fun: Have an iPad and want to learn more about black holes while having fun? Check out the Nova Black Holes app!

QuarkNet Staff:
Mark Adams: adams@fnal.gov
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu