Virginia Center Summer 2022 Meeting August 1 - August 3

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HU-WM-GMU QuarkNet Center

August 1-3 2022

Small Hall, Room 122

THEME: What's New

Agenda, Monday, August 1, 2022 (Featuring Josh - day 1)

Time (local)	Activity
09:30	Coffee & Conversation
10:00	Slides - Ken (zoom link) Update account - How to QuarkNet accounts (2 kinds) Survey (complete by end of workshop) Cosmic Ray Detectors Registration
10:45	Discussion - Deborah How has teaching changed? Pre/Post Covid Physics with Phones
11:45	Lunch
13:00	Josh Talk See slides in the Files section below
	Josh Demos String Loop Lasso
15:00	Josh Careers in Physics
16:00	Break
16:15	Deborah TOTEM activities
16:30	Reflection
17:00	Depart for the day

Agenda, Tuesday, August 2, 2022 (NOvA - day 2)

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Time (local)	Activity
08:30	Coffee & Conversation
09:00	Neutrino & NOvA Introduction ● Workshop Overview ● Setting the Stage (From Big to Small) ● Video: How to Make a Beam of Neutrinos ● Neutrino Tutorial: Link to Neutrino Tutorial Time to Work (~15 min) Group A doc Group B doc Group C doc Neutrino Tutorial Share Out ● Video: NOvA Experiment Time Lapse Video: Standard Model Explained by Alex the JPEG
10:00	Break
10:15	NOvA Masterclass Measurement - Theory & Far Detector CC Events ● Visit from Patricia Vahle NOvA spokesperson Theory & Far Event Introduction Talk ● Charged Current (NuMu) Event Images CC (NuMu) Track Length Reporting Results of Track Length Reporting
11:15	Lunch
12:30	Did this before lunch NOvA Masterclass Measurement - Far Detector NC Events ● Neutral Current Event Images Neutral Current Track Length Reporting Results of Track Length Reporting ● Results Discussion - Charged vs Neutral Events
13:30	Near Detector Analysis Introduction ● # Events Analysis - Near vs Far Detector Video: Inverse Square ● Near Detector Intro Analysis Talk
14:30	Break
14:45	Started this block at 13:30 Near Detector Event Analysis - Python Coding PICUP Trinket info ● Python Near Event Analysis - Participant Version Do a “File - Make a Copy” Github link Teacher “answer key”
16:15	Break
16:30	Closing discussion ● Even Bananas Video Q&A, Closing Reflections Finished at 4:30
17:00	Depart for the day

Agenda, Wednesday, August 3, 2022 (Higgs @ 10 - day 3)

Time (local)	Activity
08:30	Coffee & Conversation
09:00	Shuffling the Particle Deck
09:30	Where's Higgs? Marc Sher Renown Higgs expert answered our questions about Higgs field and boson. Helped us find language to accurately describe these ideas to our students.
10:15	Break
10:30	The Higgs: What have we learned? CERN Higgs episode 2/3 CERN Higgs episode 3/3 E = mc²
11:30	Lunch
12:30	Search for Higgs in CMS data Intro slides Z-mass activity (calculator) (data) MassCalc spreadsheet iSpy for Higgs@10 (results form) (output) Analysis using coding Higgs @ 10 Python Analysis Teacher Answer Key Higgs @ 10 Analysis
14:00	Implementation plans and Reflections
15:00	Depart for the day

Resources

Contacts

QuarkNet 8-1-22.pdf bytes