Friday Flyer - December 5, 2014

Spotlight on Syracuse University QuarkNet Center: Teachers and physicists at the SU center worked for three days this summer to get more familiar and comfortable with their cosmic ray muon detectors (CRMDs). They also participated in an LHCb masterclass in the spring. Seven teachers attended the summer meeting. They explored the new graphical user interface—EQUIP—that simplifies interacting with the DAQ. Users can click to send commands and watch plots of the rates within EQUIP as they make adjustments. Each teacher created a draft of a lab or demo that they could use with their students during the school year. The March masterclass event involved 30 students; Steve Blusk and Mitch Soderberg from the SU physics department hosted the day. 

News from QuarkNet Central: Getting ready for 2014-15 programs. Changed schools? Your students used a detector last year? Need an account? We are starting the funding process for coming programs. All active teachers and mentors should have up-to-date accounts on this website. This information serves as the basis for our center funding profiles.

Ken has posted a new QuarkNet an der Elbe, as always using only pure, organic html. 

Physics Experiment Roundup: Article from E137 run at SLAC from 1980-82 about clues to dark matter (from Science)
                                                    Article about more recent data from the Fermi telescope (from Scientific American)

Resources: Videos from Don Lincoln - LHC Magnets, CMS, LHC

Just for Fun: Here is the comic from Mike Wadness: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3554#comic.

QuarkNet Staff Teachers:
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Tom Jordan: jordant@fnal.gov
Bob Peterson: rspete@fnal.gov