2024 Cosmic Ray Workshop at Univ. of Washington

Introductions and Registration

• Sign in on the sign sheet
• Introduction of each teacher (name, school, subject, years of teaching, interest, what is the goal of the workshop)
• Registration Link (This is for teachers only)
• Who needs a Cosmic Ray e-Lab account? (E-mail Shane - swood5@nd.edu - and he will make you one.)
• Sign-in

• Introduction of the detector (show set up and description of each part of the equipment)
• Questions and answers

• Second Detector Set-Up (hands-on activity - teachers connect all counters and discussion on what is working or not)
• What teachers must know: safety (emergency information signs, storage containers), inclinometer, tape measurement, shelving, etc.
• Calibrate Barometers - to find accurate data of pressure using the Phyphox app
• Review how to do geometry
• Discussion (questions and answers)
• Let run data for afternoon analysis.

1:00 - 2:00

pm

Cosmic Ray e-Lab

• e-Lab registration
• Introduction of the e-lab website and how to use
• Search for data
• How to do a flux study
• Look at concatenated blessing files
• How to do a Lifetime and Time of the flight study
• Angle of Acceptance

Data Activities Portfolio (DAP) Activity: 

• Hands-on activity Shuffling the Particle Deck
• Discussion of how to use this activity in the classroom
• QuarkNet activity page intro - how to find activities (time to explore)
• Standard Model, Muons

Cosmic Ray Studies

• Upload morning data. How to stop the data and how to upload the data, how to enter geometric data accurately 
• Discussion on morning data analysis
• How to do shower study - many possible set-ups
• Go over CR recourse "Golden files."

Overnight Cosmic Ray Studies

• Discussion on - What do we want to run overnight? - Set it up.
• On stack - switch channels 1 and 2 to do a speed of muon study

Sign-in

Plan for day, Questions?

Upload data, check blessing, voltage, etc.

start running another data changing position of counters 3 and 4

Sign in to e-Lab and find the uploaded file 

Analyze the data Performance, Time of flight (is there any sense)

• Cosmic Ray Muon Analysis: Muon Time of Flight
• Timing correction and cable length calibration
• Prediction relationship between acceptance vs time of flight
• start calculation acceptance angle on set up 
• Graph data on Desmos and see how our prediction was
• Do research on angle dependance of muon 
• Looking back, the result data and how it makes sense. 

Go over: What document teacher needs, 

• Students' work examples 
• a calibration tutorial, 
• detector safety setup idea (pictures), 
• instructional strategy and PPT.

Discussion - questions and answers

Work on creating posters

Presentation

Discuss what is missing and what should be there.

Hands-on activity:

Histogram Activity: Rolling with Rutherford? Other?

Implement in a classroom - 

• how to continue the class discussion, 
• other histogram activities

Cosmic Ray Studies

• Upload and data analysis of today's on stack switched counter 3 and 4 data
• Speed of muon
• Discussion

Overall Cosmic Ray Studies

• Workshop Reflection: Discussion: Implementation Plans
• fill out the survey.

Teacher Survey

Complete Teacher Survey or Teacher Survey Update (Required for all teachers.) Teachers must complete one of the following. 

• If a teacher completed the  Full Teacher Survey anytime in 2023, then complete the UPDATE: 2024 Teacher Survey (once during 2024).  
  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JNRN6BD Plan for ~6 minutes here.
  • OR...Spanish version of Update Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JNP67QJ
• If a teacher did NOT complete the Full Teacher Survey anytime in 2023, then complete The Full Teacher Survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/G8P3C8R We ask that an individual teacher complete this only once in 2024. Plan for ~15-20 minutes here.