NC A&T Intro. to QuarkNet Workshop - March 1, 2025

  Welcome

• Dr. Abdellah Amidouch, Dean of NC A&T College of Science and Technology
• Dr. Shelly Lesher, Chair of NC A&T Physics Department

  QuarkNet Basics (S. Wood, Payne)

  Setting the stage: Big to small (slides)

  Talk: Light Echoes Of Type IA Supernovae - slides

• Dr. Charlotte Wood, NC A&T Astrophysicist slides

12:00 PM

  Activity: Rolling with Rutherford (Alvord/Payne)
     Using indirect evidence to "see" the invisible. 

     Optional Helpful Links:

• Tracks - Tracks tell stories and provide indirect evidence. 
• Cloud chamber - example of particle tracks
  • Link to free cloud chambers from American Nuclear Society
• Slides - for reference
• Spreadsheet - for visualizing the importance of more data
• Simulation - From Jeremy Wegner

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

  Activity: Calculate the Z Mass - (Wood, Payne, Alvord)
     Use conservation laws (energy/momentum) to calculate the mass of a particle.

     Optional Links:

• Act out p-p collision and subsequent decay
• Slides - for reference
• Data/events
• Spreadsheet (for quick total momentum calculations)
• Plots from the pros: CMS, ATLAS, Higgs (4l, animated)

3:30 PM