Colorado State University Center
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Welcome to the Colorado State QuarkNet Center.
Description
Colorado State University Center for teachers in the Fort Collins area.
2020 CSU STEP UP Virtual Workshop
August 5, 2020
Meet Online - Zoom Link:
https://notredame.zoom.us/j/97490159562?pwd=S2lMNUhKUDdzTmc2MWFnK0Nyelo3Zz09
**Cherie will email password.**
Agenda
Wednesday, August 5
08:30 Opening Activities
2019 CSU Annual Report
See attached document for the CSU 2019 Annual Report.
Neutrino Data Workshop at CSU
Small URL for this page: http://tiny.cc/csunu19.
Agenda
Times and specific activities are subject to adjustment.
Monday 29 July09:00 Coffee and Detectors
10:00 Registration and Information |
2018 Annual Report
LIGO e-Lab workshop at Colorado State University
Objectives
Participating teachers will be able to use the LIGO e-Lab to:
2017 Annual Report - Colorado State University Center
QuarkNet Center @ Colorado State University
FY 2016-2017 Annual Report
Faculty mentors: Dr. Bob Wilson, Physics Professor, Physics Department, Colorado State University
Lead teachers: Cherie Bornhorst, Teacher in Residence, Colorado School of Mines; Adam Pearlstein, Teacher in Residence, Colorado State University; and Zach Armstrong, Science Teacher, Greeley West High School
CMS e-Lab Workshop at CSU 2017
June 5-6, 2017
Objectives
Participating teaches will be able to:
- Identify particles colliding and emerging from collisions at the LHC from CMS data.
- Interpret the physical meaning of plots created from CMS data in light of conservation rules (energy, momentum, charge).
- Ask and answer questions about the physics of high energy collisions using CMS data.
We will also provide opportunities to engage in critical dialogue among teaching colleagues about what they learn in the workshop.
Agenda
Monday June 509:00 Coffee, opening chat & sign-in 09:15 Introduction/Objectives/ 09:30 CMS update video 10:30 Break 10:45 Level 1 Data Portfolio Activities:
11:45 Reflection on Activities 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Level 2 Data Porfolio Activity 14:00 Introducation to CMS e-Lab
15:30 Reflections and discussion 16:00 End of workshop day 1 |
Tuesday June 608:00 Coffee/Recap of Yesterday/ 08:30 CMS e-Lab work time 11:30 Poster Presentations 13:00 Reflection and discussions 13:30 Implementation survey 14:00 Test lab set-up: 15:00 Workshop evaulation; |
Resources
Contacts
Colorado State University QuarkNet Center 2016 Annual Report
QuarkNet Center @ Colorado State University
FY 2015-2016 Annual Report
Faculty mentors: Dr. Bob Wilson, Physics Professor, Physics Department, Colorado State University
Lead teachers: Cherie Bornhorst, Science Teacher, Loveland High School; and Adam Pearlstein, Teacher in Residence, Colorado State University
The Colorado State Quarknet Center is now in its 5th year. In the first two years of our program, we focused on cosmic ray research, and deployed 4 detectors at high schools on the Front Range. In our third year we worked to expand our program; both in membership of teachers, and to include other aspects of high energy physics, and were trained on the use of the CMS e-Lab. The focus our fourth year was classroom application; to train our teachers on the use of their CRMD’s with the new EQUIP program, and hosting students for our first annual Masterclass event. And this year’s focus is to build on the strengths and skill sets of the teachers involved with our program, and to explore even more ways to bring high energy data into the classroom!
Masterclass@CSU:
Our Masterclass this year at CSU was unfortunately cancelled due to over a foot of snow that fell on the scheduled day. We’re looking forward to resuming with Masterclass again next year!
Quarknet@CSU Workshop:
A five day workshop was held at CSU on June 13-17, 2016, and mostly took place in the Physics 111 Lab at CSU. The workshop dates coincided with the US Particle Accelerator Summer School program, which was held in Fort Collins this summer. Monday morning we were invited to partake in the USPAS and hear introductory lectures from 3 different HEP researchers and professors from CSU. This included an introduction to the “Physics of the Universe” by our mentor, Professor Bob Wilson, an “Introduction to the Standard Model” from Professor Walter Toki who works with the T2K experiment, and an “Overview of Cosmic Ray Physics” by Professor John Harton who works with the Auger experiment. After a morning of lectures, we traveled to CSU where we spent the remainder of the week. A major goal of the remaining 4.5 days was to expose teachers to the resources and activities available through the Quarknet Data Portfolio. Monday afternoon teachers were led through the Plotting the LHC activity, and TOTEM Data Express. Tuesday morning started with a share-a-thon with our teachers. We had a great time sharing resources we use in our classrooms, and of one of the major highlights was a lab setup for the Milliken experiment that many of us hadn’t seen before. We are applying for funds next year to build a couple sets of this lab setup that we can share among our teachers. Tuesday afternoon our mentor, Professor Bob Wilson gave a presentation on his research in neutrino oscillation and work with the LBNE experiment. We got to tour his lab and hear from the graduate students who were prototyping the detectors that will surround the DUNE experiment. Wednesday and Thursday of the workshop we spent time working with our Cosmic Ray Muon Detectors, and running Lifetime and Time of Flight studies which we had not done in previous years. This gave us all time to refresh ourselves on working with the detectors and the Cosmic Ray E-lab, as well as teach the new teacher to our group how to use the equipment.
The final day of the workshop was dedicated time for the teachers to continue learning more about cosmic rays and setup their CRMD’s in their classrooms. Teachers took data with the cosmic ray detectors, using the new Java-based program, EQUIP, which allows teachers a real-time look at muon counts on each channel during data collection, as well as an ease of user interface. Teachers had time to review the steps necessary to collect data that is “blessed”, and therefore open-source data once uploaded to the Cosmic Ray eLab. The detectors are currently with teachers at 3 Colorado high schools, namely: Cherokee Trail High School, Berthoud High School, and Greeley West High School.
Teachers participating in the summer workshop:
Cherie Bornhorst, Loveland High School
Adam Pearlstein, Colorado State University
Zach Armstrong, Greeley West High School
Chris Nichols, Castleview High School
Roger Felch, Castleview High School
Austin Gager, Cherokee Trail High School
Summer 2016 Quarknet Workshop @ CSU: Agenda
Agenda
Times and specific activities are subject to adjustment.
Monday 13 June8:45 We've been invited to the kick-off Meet @ The Marriott
12:15 Lunch Fill out registration form here. 13:30 Plotting the LHC Discovery Activiity 14:15 Break 14:30 TOTEM Data Express Activity 15:30 Reflections on Activities and Discussion 16:00 End of Day |
Tuesday 14 June09:00 Breakfast/Recap of Yesterday/Plan for Today 09:15 Share-a-thon 10:30 Preparing for CMS Masterclass 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Explore CMS e-Lab 14:00 30-45 Minutes with Profoessor Bob Wilson 14:30 Implementation plans 15:30 Evaluation and Close
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Wednesday 15 June09:00 Breakfast 09:15 Introduction/Objectives/Overview/Data Porfolio 9:30 Build cloud chambers 10:00 Setup cosmic ray detectors 11:30 Lunch 12:30 Lifetime activity (using CR elab) 14:00 Lab tour 15:30 Setup detector to take data overnight 15:30 Reflections on Activities and Discussion 16:00 End of Day |
Thursday 16 June09:00 Breakfast/Recap of Yesterday/Plan for Today 09:45 Practice uploading data to CR elab 11:00 Time of Flight Experiment 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Cosmic Rays and The Sun Activity 14:00 Reflection on Activity and Discussion 14:15 Break 14:30 Implementation plans 15:00 Evaluation and Close
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