QuarkNet @ STEMarts Bootcamp - Jan. 25, 2025

Bootcamp Agenda

January 25, 2025

Exploring the Universe through Particle Physics

9:00 - 9:15       Meet and Greet

9:15 - 9:30       Markus Demo-Introduce Tagtool as a medium

                         *  Plant seeds of science concepts (scale, traces, origins)

                         *  Live demo of animation and performative features 

9:30 - 10:00     Steven Goldfarb, Live from ATLAS Experiment

                          *  Show Control Room/Where am I?

                          *  What is CERN/LHC/Detector Slides

                          *  Why? Big questions: Where do we come from? Why do we exist?

10:00 - 10:15    BREAK

10:15 - 12:30    Shane Hands-on Physics Activities:

• Tracks: How do we know these particles exist?
  • Slides - tracks
  • Cloud Chamber
    • In-person - check it out!
    • Online video of an impressive cloud chamber
  • Z-Mass Analysis

1. Act out proton-proton collision at the LHC
2. Check out some tracks from the CMS detector

iSpy WebGL - link

Find “di-muon” events - those with exactly 2 red tracks

What do you notice about these tracks? What do you wonder?

CMS Data Express

1. Build histogram

12:30-1:15 Lunch

1:15 - 1:45 Steve Tamayo join via Zoom to share ideas on cultural integration

Tagtool Creation Session by Ian Harrison

1:45 - 2:15 Ideation/paper drawing/share out- Work in teams of two

                  *  Science integration with Shane

2:15 - 2:30 Present ideas

2:30 - 2:45  BREAK

2:45 - 4:00 Creation/Development of performance

                   *  Science integration with Shane

                   *  Testing on presentation screen

4:00 - 4:30 Final Performances

4:30 - 5:00 Closing reflections/surveys