2025 KSU MC Orientation Workshop

Saturday February 22, 2025, 8:45 AM - 3:00 PM

Location: Cardwell Hall, Room 224, Zoom: https://notredame.zoom.us/my/swood5

Small URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/orientksu25

Agenda

8:45    Introductions, sign-in, registration 

8:55    Tim Bolton: K-State Physics

9:05    Tim Bolton: NuMI Off-axis ν_e Appearance (NOvA) Experiment

9:35    Break

9:45    Begin Masterclass Measurement Review

     Neutrino "Film Festival"

• How to make a beam of neutrinos - Symmetry (1'45")
  AND
• How do we study neutrino oscillation? - Even Bananas (6'51") 
  OR
• How do neutrino oscillations work? - Even Bananas (7'55")

     NOvA Masterclass Measurement - Part 1: Far Detector Analysis

• NOvA Masterclass Cheat Sheet
• Far Detector Analysis:
  • NOvA Overview & Background - Slides 1-10
     
  • NOvA Far Detector, Charged Current (CC)/NuMu - Slides 11-16
    • CC(NuMu) Images - link to 6 events <-- MEASURE
    • CC(NuMu) Report Track Lengths - link<-- RECORD
    • Results of Track Reporting Form - link <-- VIEW
       
  • NOvA Far Detector, Neutral Current (NC) - Slides 17-20
    • NC Images - link to 40 events <-- MEASURE
    • NC Report Track Lengths - link<-- RECORD
    • Results of Track Reporting Form - link <-- VIEW
       
  • Discussion: What is our (imperfect) cutoff length that we will use to separate likely CC(NuMu) events from NC events?

10:50    BREAK

11:00    Finish Masterclass Measurement Review  

     NOvA Masterclass Measurement - Part 2: Near Detector Analysis

• Near Detector Analysis:
  • NOvA Near Detector - Slides 23-24
  • Python Near Event Analysis - Link to Student Version Using Colaboratory (Or...Alternative to Colaboratory)
    • Do a File --> Save a copy in Drive
    • Github link - to access Near Detector data
  • Discussion: Compare ratios of CC(NuMu) to NC events at the far detector vs. the near detector. Do we see evidence of neutrino osciallation? What is your reasoning?

12:00    LUNCH

1:00    Penny Blue & Shane Wood: Preparing Your Students for Masterclass Day

2:00    Masterclass Logistics

• Build Schedule for the Masterclass Day
• Assign Tasks
• Check Zoom

3:00    Conclusion