UB QuarkNet Summer 2022

• Coffee and chat
• Registration
• APS STEP UP poster & Fermilab norms poster
• A look at the Data Activities Portfolio

09:30 Warm-up Data Activity

• Shuffling the Particle Deck
• Does the Higgs fit in?

10:00 Tutorial

• Where's Higgs?

10:45 Break

11:00 Higgs and CMS, 2012-present (Kharchilava)

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Data Activity

• Dice Histograms, and Probability

14:00 Search for Higgs in CMS data

• Take breaks as needed
• Intro slides
• Dimuon activity prototype (calculator) (data) (plot from eLab)
• MassCalc spreadsheet
• iSpy for Higgs@10 (results form) (output)
• CMS 2- and 4-lepton plots
• Optional: NP Notebook. MP Notebook
  • Resource: 4-lepton raw csv file
• Discussion

16:00 End-of-day

09:00 Coffee and chat

09:15 Intro videos

• Pair programming
• What Most Schools Don’t Teach
   

09:30 Tools

• GitHub
• Colab Survival Guide
• Sample Code Blocks (Plucinski)

10:00 Data Activity

• Introduction to Coding Using Jupyter

10:30  Break

10:45 More notebooks

• Probability
  • Task: Simulate flipping a coin and make a histogram of the number of heads for each trial.
  • Skills: generate random numbers, create and format a histogram
• Position graphs
  • Task: analyze Position graphs
  • Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
• Discussion: where are we now? 

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Try more coding activities

• Velocity graphs
  • Task: Analyze Velocity graphs
  • Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
• Projectile in Air
  • Task: Model the motion of a projectile in air
  • Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
• Quakes
  • Task: Identify patterns in global seismic activity
  • Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data
• Global Temperature
  • Task: Describe the differences between land and water on temperature
  • Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data
• Tides
  • Task: Identify patterns in tidal height over time
  • Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data, manipulate time series data

14:45 Break

15;00 Relativistic Kinematics (Kharchilava) (slides)

15:30 Introduction to Muon Mass Notebook 

• Short introduction to Muon Mass notebook
• Muon mass
  • Task: measure the invariant mass of a muon
  • Skills: calculate invariant mass given its 4-vector (energy and x/y/z-momentum), make a mass plot

16:00 End-of-day

09:00 Coffee and chat

09:15 All hands meeting

• Share observations, challenges
• How do you think your students would handle these tasks?

09:30 Start coding projects:

• take breaks as needed
• Analysis of J/Ψ → μμ events in CMS
  • Notebook - blank, ready to copy
  • Notebook - worked out (answer key)
• Projects using
  • CMS Open Data 
  • Ice Cube Open Data

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Finish projects; present results

14:30 Implementation plans

• report template
• completed plans by four teachers

15:30 Survey Update OR Full Survey (if you did not complete full survey 2019-2021)

16:00 End-of-Workshop