SMU Workshop 2023 - Coding, Dark Matter, New Questions
Short URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/smuqn23
June 26-30, 2023 (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CT daily)
Location: Fondren Science Building room 060
Agenda:
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LINK: 3-Day Coding Workshop Agenda
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LINK: Dark Matter Workshop Agenda |
New Questions in Particle Physics Workshop Agenda |
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Thursday, June 29 - Dark Matter (Lead: Peggy Norris)
Link to today's agenda
9:00 Welcome
- Introductions
- Assess prior knowledge - What have you heard or read about dark matter?
9:15 Evidence for the existence of dark matter
- The movement of galaxies
- The movement of stars within galaxies
- Activity 1
- Activity 2
- General relativity / gravitational lensing
- Activity 3
10:45 Candidates for dark matter and how we detect them
11:30 Xenon1T Summary Article Jigsaw activity
12:00 LUNCH
13:00 Xenon1T Detector Response for WIMP candidates
- Work through 4 GeV/c2 WIMP mass together
- Each group work through analysis for a different WIMP mass
- Report out by groups
14:45 ORID Discussion in small groups; feedback on pilot MC
15:15 What did you learn about dark matter today (post-assessment)?
15:30 What questions do you still have about dark matter?
15:45 All hands meeting
- DM Citizen Science
- Daily feedback survey
16:00 Adjourn for the day
Friday, June 30 - New Questions (Lead: Ken Cecire)
9:00 Opening Activities
- Introduction
- Dice Activity
- You will roll your die at up to 30 times, keeping track of your results in the 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 30 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.
- You will roll your die at up to 30 times, keeping track of your results in the provided spreadsheet.
- Measuring the Z (plots) (histogram example)
- Discussion: Random fluctuations vs.systematic error vs.blunders
10:15 Break
10:30 The W-mass conundrum
- Introduction (slides)
- Individual event mass calculations (event display) (cheat sheet)
- find a Z → mu mu (two long straight red tracks)
- calculate M and Mt from table data and enter in sheet
- find a W → mu nu (one long red track, one pink/purple track for "missing energy")
- calculate Mt from table data and enter in sheet
- find a Z → mu mu (two long straight red tracks)
- Calculations from CMS Open Data
- Discussion
12:00 LUNCH
13:06 W mass wrap-up
13:30 The muon has its moment
- play with tops
- Video: The physics of g-2
- g-2 tutorial
- Report
14:15 A new and odd particle
14:45 Break
15:00 The latest as of...yesterday
15:30 Final items
16:00 End of workshop
Contacts
- Durdana Balakishiyeva, SMU QuarkNet Mentor
- Peggy Norris, SURF
- Ken Cecire, QuarkNet Staff
- Shane Wood, QuarkNet Staff
- Peter Apps, QuarkNet Coding Fellow
Resources
- CERN Open Data
- More videos on g-2