Rice Workshop 2023
IRIS-HEP Coding, W2D2, and New Questions Workshop
June 19-23, 2023
Main meeting room: Herman Brown Hall 227
Break-out room available: Herman Brown Hall 223
Short URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/qnrice23
Rice agenda page: https://star.rice.edu/outreach/quarknet/summer2023/
Agenda:
| Monday, June 19 | Tuesday, June 20 | Wednesday, June 21 |
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| Lunch Session: Prof. Bellwied (Univ. of Houston) - Heavy Ions in the LHC |
Lunch Session: Prof. Morosan (Rice Univ.) - Superconducting Materials |
Lunch Session: Prof. Higuera (Rice Univ.) - Machine Learning with Neutrinos |
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LINK: 3-Day IRIS-HEP Coding Workshop Agenda
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Thursday, June 22 - World Wide Data Day
9:00 am Opening Session
- Intros and check-in (new facilitators)
- Update from QuarkNet Central
- Data Activities Portfolio (DAP)
- A look ahead
- Just for the fun of it: Map of physics, video
9:30 am Mentor Talk - Prof. Darin Acosta (Rice Univ.)
- Standard Model and LHC Update - link to talk
10:15 am Demo: Cloud Chamber
- For reference; related DAP activities: Making Tracks (slides, Making Tracks I: student page (write-up), student record page (handout))
- Cloud chamber video
- Extension: Making Tracks II The "next" particle detector historically: The bubble chamber. (Bubble chamber example event.)
11:00 am Lunch Session: Prof. Toffoletto (Rice Univ) - The Physics of Music
12:30 or 1:00 pm Setting the State: The LHC
- Context: Big, small
- DAP Activity: Shuffling the Particle Deck
standard model, and standard model (good luck with that!) - Intro video (CERN) - LHC (Don Lincoln)
- Collisions @ the LHC (A short "play")
2:00 pm BREAK
2:15 pm World Wide Data Day
- Slides
- Analysis
- Access events: iSpy-w2d2
- Record results: Tally sheet - printed
- Share results: Spreadsheet
- Discussion
3:30 pm Adjourn for the day
Friday, June 23 - New Questions
9:00 am Carlton Colmenares (Rice Univ) - The 2024 Eclipse (demo in the dome!)
- Space.Rice.edu resources
- Guidelines for safely observing an eclipse
11:00 am Opening Activities
- Dice Activity
- You will roll your die at least 30 times, keeping track of your results in the spreadsheet provided.
- Spreadsheet
- Please only edit your assigned sheet number
- Enter the results of your dice roll in column A. Please only put number (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6) in column A.
- Roll 50 times and record your result for each roll (column A).
- Create a histogram of your results in your sheet? Does the histogram show what you expected?
- We will look at combined results together.
- Measuring the Z (plots)
- Discussion: Random fluctuations vs.systematic error vs.blunders
12:00 pm Lunch
12:30 pm W-mass Activity
- slides
- event display
- find a Z → mu mu (two long straight red tracks), copy kinematics into this sheet
- find a W → mu nu (one long red track, one pink/purple track for "missing energy"), copy kinematics into this sheet
- your copy: spreadsheet with Z and W data ("house" original)
- CERN Open Data
2:00 pm Break
2:15 pm g-2 tutorial
3:00 pm Discussion
3:15 pm Final items:
- Teacher Survey
- 2-question evaluation
- Check: Did you register (day one)? Did you sign in each day?
3:30 pm End of workshop
Contacts
Frank G
Darin A
Ken C
Shane W