SST 2024: Session 3 Links, Materials, Assignment
Particle Physics at Colliders
July 2, 2024
7:30pm - 9:30pm Eastern time
Learning objectives:
In this lecture, we will finish the history of the Standard Model and discuss how physicists use colliders to probe fundamental particles and discover new particles such as the Higgs boson.
A recording of the course can be found here. The chat transcript is here.
Click here for the slides for this week's class.
Homework assignment (due July 2):
A. Explore the CMS e-lab: https://www.i2u2.org/elab/cms/home/index.jsp
Click here for full instructions for the CMS assignment.
If you don't have an account, or if you forgot your account information, please sign in as a guest.
Add a slide to the class Google slides (link sent via email). Your slide should include at least one of the plots you made on the e-lab and a descriptive caption. Read at least three other people’s slides describing what they did and be prepared to discuss.
B. Fill out the weekly course survey (link sent via email). Note that this step is required every week in order to self-report the number of hours spent so we can give you professional development credit.
The homework should take approximately one hour to complete. If you finish before one hour, then feel free to explore the additional resources below. If you cannot finish the assignment in one hour, then feel free to stop halfway through.
Additional resources:
- Additional discussion on the Heisenberg uncertainty activity (week 1 homework). Scroll to the end for additional links.
https://quarknet.org/content/note-consistency-complimentary-variabless
- QuarkNet activities using the D0 event displays, in case you want to use these in the future with your class:
https://quarknet.org/data-portfolio/activity/calculate-top-quark-mass
https://quarknet.org/data-portfolio/activity/case-hidden-neutrino
- Two neutrino experiment
Article: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1988/9557-the-hunt-for-the-muon-neutrino/
- Experimental discovery of the neutrino Article: https://radioactivity.eu.com/articles/phenomenon/1956-neutrino-discovery
- Discovery of the upsilon
Article: https://history.fnal.gov/historical/experiments/extra_upsilon.html
- Discovery of the top quark
Article: https://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/physics/discoveries/top_quark.html
- Feynman diagrams (unfortunately some of the photos don't load, depending on your browser)
Blog: https://www.quantumdiaries.org/2010/02/14/lets-draw-feynman-diagams/
- Many resources on CMS can be found on the e-Lab:
Videos, articles: https://www.i2u2.org/elab/cms/library/resources.jsp
- Example LHC event displays of new physics
Article: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-lhc-watchers-field-guide?language_content_entity=und
- The Higgs boson, explained
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joTKd5j3mzk
- What’s really happening at CERN
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCmwCkNY85g