U of M QuarkNet Workshop 2022

09:00  Opening Session (Intros., Registration, Overview, News from QN Central, DAP)

09:30  Cosmic Ray Tutorial (Link)

• Group 1 "poster"
• Group 2 "poster"
• Group 3 "poster"

10:15  Cosmic Ray Exploration

• Explore possible studies
• Set up detectors (begin)

11:00  Physicist Talk: Liquid Argon Testbeam (Matt Strait)

09:00  Opening Session (Greetings, Q&A)

09:15  Cosmic Ray Studies

11:00  Physicist Talk: Mu2e

09:00  Opening Session (Greetings, Q&A)

09:15  NOvA - Part 1

• Part 1 Theory & Far Event Intro Slides
• Charged Current (NuMu) Event Images
  • CC (NuMu) Track Length Reporting
  • Results of Track Length Reporting

10:30  BREAK

10:45  NOvA Part 1 Debrief

11:00  Physicist Talk: Neutrino Talk (Chris Hilgenberg)

09:00  Opening Session (Greetings, Q&A)

09:30  DAP - Shuffling the Particle Deck

• Does the Higgs fit in?

10:00  Activity: Where's Higgs?

• Link

11:00  Physicist Talk - Higgs Update (Neil Schroeder)

13:00  Cosmic Ray Session

• Opportunities during school year:
  • Int'l Cosmic Day (DESY)
  • Int'l Muon Week (QuarkNet)
• Cosmic ray studies
  • without detector
  • with detector
• Collect data overnight

15:30  End of day discussion

16:00  End of day

13:00 Cosmic Ray Session

15:00  Cosmic Ray Discussion

• Implementation ideas
• Plans for 2022-23
• Q&A

16:00  End of day

13:00 NOvA - Part 1.5

• Neutral Current Event Images  
  • Neutral current track length recorder
  • Results of track length reporting
• Near/Far

14:00  Break

14:15  NOvA - Part 2

• Part 2 Near analysis slides
• Python Near event analysis  - Participant version
  • Do a "File - Make a copy"
  • Github link
  • Teacher "answer key"
• Even Bananas video

16:00  End of day

13:00  Activity: Look for Higgs in data from CMS

• Intro slides
• Start simple: Z mass
  • Need a scientific calculator? Check your phone, or here's one!
  • Spreadsheet-1
• Explore 4-lepton events
  • Event Display
  • MassReport
• Where's Higgs?
• Spreadsheet-2

15:00 Concluding Session

• Implementation Plans - discussion & plans
• https://notredame.zoom.us/my/swood5
• Survey
  • Survey Update OR
  • Full Survey (if you did not complete full survey anytime in 2019-2021)

16:00  End of workshop