Fermilab / University of Chicago / College of DuPage Center
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Welcome to the Fermilab/U Chicago QuarkNet Center.
Description
Center at Fermilab that includes Chicago slots
CMS e-Lab Fermi Lab Center summer 2016
Objectives
Workshop participants will:
- 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.
Agenda
Thursday 28 July 201613:00 Introductions
13:30 What is CMS?
14:00 Z mass 15:00 Calibration data 15:30 End of Day
Resources
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Friday 29 July 201609:00 Coffee, Recap, Reflect 9:15 CMS Masterclass Measurement Introduction 11:00 Explore posters in e-Lab 11:30 Discussion and creation of research questions 12:00 lunch 13:00 Work on research question 14:30 Present posters 15:00 Implementation Discussion 15:30 Evaluation/Looking Forward End of workshop
Contacts |
2015 FNAL-UC Abstract: Pulsar II and VIPRAM Chip Technology
2015 FNAL-UC Abstract: ARCONS Data Analysis
2015 FNAL-UC Abstract: LArIAT Firmware Trigger Upgrades
2015 FNAL-UC Abstract: QuarkNet Radio Telescope
QuarkNet Radio Telescope
S. Qadir – student (Wheaton North)
J. Johanik – student (Metea Valley)
M. Mleczko – student (Wheaton Warrenville South)
C. Stoughton – mentor (Fermilab)
Our purpose during our term was to investigate the possibilities of creating and accurately operating a reasonably priced Radio Telescope designed for High Schools across the nation to use. During our summer, we managed to construct two parabolic dishes and outfitted one dish to a level of producing basic astronomical observations. Our immediate goal for this six-week project was to see the 21-centimeter hydrogen line — a radio signal that indicates the presence of neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way. Our future goal is to run both dishes together and use interferometry to obtain a better overall resolution. Our main vision is to enlist high schools across the nation to build similar radio telescopes and make a QRA (QuarkNet Radio Array) to achieve interferometry. For the summer project, we not only conducted fundamental research on radio telescopes, programmed software, and collected data but we also ironed out potential problems that we encountered or problems high schools could encounter. We hope that teachers can then easily implement radio telescopes at their high schools, helping to build a network of them across the country, all working in harmony to make even stronger measurements of our universe.
2015 Student Summer Research and Teacher Workshop-FNAL/UC Annual Report
QuarkNet
Fermilab: University of Chicago
Student Summer Research and Teacher Workshop Annual Report
The Fermilab/University of Chicago QuarkNet Center sponsored its annual student summer research and teacher workshop for its 9th year. The summer research began June 22nd and went until July 31st. The three day teacher workshop spanned from July 29th to July 31st. This year’s summer activities included two mentor teachers, eight high school students, (seven juniors and one sophomore), 12 physics teachers, and one lead scientist. Teachers from the workshop primarily were from the suburbs west of Chicago, all having taught physics or will be teaching physics this upcoming year. We had a good spread in gender, age, and years of experience in the classroom.
The summer research was extremely exciting for the students this year. Two of the students worked individually, each with a mentor scientist, while the other six students worked in two groups of three, sharing a mentor scientist. The students’ experiments ranged greatly. The students conducted research on a number of different areas including Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, the Pulsar II and VIPRAM chip, Liquid Argon in a Time Detection Chamber, and the piloting of the QuarkNet Radio Telescope. During the week, the students had the opportunity to attend lectures by well-known scientists as well as go on tours and nature walks. We conducted weekly lunch meetings on Wednesdays to keep up with the logistics and share the progress on the students’ experiments. Finally, for the teacher workshop, each student prepared a presentation to give on their experiment. All of these went well and we are extremely proud of their progress and accomplishments.
The teacher workshop was also a great success. This year the first two days were filled with a CMS data workshop, conducted by Shane Wood. The third day included all of the student presentations. Chris Stoughton, the lead scientist, started each day with an opening discussion. Rick Cavanaugh conducted the CMS scientist talk, and Tim Meyer, Fermilab COO, came through with a “Chalk-Talk”. While the first two days focused on the CMS and LHC, the third day included a healthy overview of topics from a wide variety of areas of study. The eight students gave six presentations, after which the teachers interacted with them and the mentor scientists for their project. This year, only two brief tours were included, though they were particularly relevant to the presentations. We visited the CMS Remote Control Room in Wilson Hall, and the temporary pilot arrangement of the QuarkNet Radio Telescopes, located at D0 Outback. We ended each day with a discussion about bringing what the teachers learned at Fermilab back to their classroom.
The Fermilab/University of Chicago QuarkNet Center continues to provide a top notch research experience and educational workshop. Both teachers and students expressed their satisfaction. We are also now in the works of planning three different events to encourage and help teachers in areas they requested. We have planned a fall Portfolio Report meeting for the teachers, a winter behind-the-scenes tour of the Adler Planetarium for their families, and a spring one-day CMS Master Class for high school students.
Lead Teachers: Ben Sawyer and George Dzuricsko
CMS Data Workshop at Fermilab
July 29-30, 2015
Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/ke34d9f.
Objectives
Participating teachers will:
- Apply classical physics principles to reduce or explain the observations in data investigations.
- Identify and describe ways that data are organized for determining any patterns that may exist in the data.
- Create, organize and interpret data plots; make claims based on evidence and provide explanations; identify data limitations.
- Develop a plan for taking students from their current level of understanding data use to subsequent levels using activities and/or ideas from the workshop.
We will also provide opportunities to engage in critical dialogue among teaching colleagues about what they learn in the workshop.
Draft Agenda
Wednesday July 2909:00 Coffee and Opening Chat 09:15 Introduction/Objectives/Overview/Data Porfolio 09:30 CMS Presentation 10:30 Break 10:45 Level 1 Data Portfolio Activities: 11:45 Reflection on Activities 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Level 1 Classroom Activities (each group chooses one) 14:00 CMS Data Express (Level 2) 15:15 Break 15:30 Reflections and discussion 16:00 End of workshop day; Fermilab Colloquium in 1 West |
Thursday July 3009:00 Coffee/Recap of Yesterday/Plan for Today 09:30 Visit to ROC 10:00 CMS Masterclass Measurement (Level 2) 11:30 Discussion and reflection 12:00 Lunch 13:00 CMS e-Lab exploration 14:00 Reflection and discussion 14:15 Break 14:30 Implementation plans (form) 15:15 Reports and discussion 16:00 Evaluation and close |
Resources
Contacts
2014 Annual Report - Fermilab-U Chicago
The University of Chicago sponsored its annual student summer research and teacher workshop for its 8th year. The summer research began June 23rd and went until August 1st. The three day teacher workshop spanned from July 29th to August 1st. This year’s summer activities included two mentor teachers, nine high school students (8 incoming seniors and 1 incoming junior), 12 physics teachers, and one lead scientist. Teachers from the workshop primarily were from the suburbs west of Chicago, all having taught physics or will be teaching physics this upcoming year. We had a good spread in gender, age, and years of experience in the classroom.
The summer research was extremely exciting for the students this year. Each student worked together with a mentor scientist on an experiment of their choosing. The students’ experiments ranged greatly. Some were modeling neutrino beams while others were developing automated code to be used on the CMS at CERN. Some were checking equipment malfunctions while others were learning to use Fourier transforms to isolate individual signal frequencies (these are high school students!). During the week, students would have the opportunity to attend lectures by well-known scientists as well as go on tours and nature walks. We would also have weekly meetings on Wednesdays to talk about logistics and the progress on the students’ experiments. Finally, for the teacher workshop, each student prepared a presentation to give on their experiment. All of these went well and we are extremely proud of their progress and accomplishments. Many of the students, although experiencing many frustrations, expressed a deep feeling of sorrow to have to leave their new friends which attests to the degree they loved being here for the summer.
The teacher workshop was also a great success. The three days were very similar. First an opening discussion with Chris Stoughton, the lead scientist, followed by a “Chalk-Talk” by a scientist. Usually, we would only have three scientists, however this year we had four: Don Lincoln, Deborah Harris, James Hocker, and Joe Lykken. We were fortunate to hear about topics from a wide variety of areas of study: Neutrinos, Dzero, SRF cavities, and theoretical physics. Following the scientist chalk-talk, three students would give their presentations. During and after every presentation, teachers were allowed and encouraged to ask questions. In fact, the theoretical physics presentation by Joe Lykken was dominated by questions from teachers, which is to be expected. Following the presentations and lunch, tours were given. This year we went to Dzero, NuMi Underground, and the Industrial building in Fermilab. Depending on the day, after the tour, we had other types of activities, either another tour or another presentation. Finally we ended each day with a discussions related to bringing what the teachers learned at Fermilab back to their classroom.
All in all, this year’s research and workshop was one of the best yet. Both teachers and students expressed their satisfaction from this summer. One teacher commented that this year had the best scientist talks. We are also now in the works of planning three different events to encourage and help teachers in areas they requested. We have planned a python learning workshop, a trip to Adler planetarium, and a possible two day master class in particle physics for those teachers that attended.
Mentors: Chris Stoughton and Tom Carter
FNAL-UC Abstract 2014 - Design, Construction and Simulation of an ADRIANO Prototype Detector
N. Cornwell
G. Dzuricsko and I. McNair, De LaSalle Institute
C. Gatto, Fermilab
Calorimetry is one of the most fundamental methods of particle detection and analysis still prevalently used in high energy physics. However, even in detectors as cutting edge as CMS, the calorimeters interfere with one another and do not give interaction-specific data. This summer, I worked alongside Corrado Gatto and two other members of the T1015 collaboration to design, construct and simulate an ADRIANO prototype. ADRIANO is a new proposition for the issues faced by a segmented calorimeter. A typical hadronic calorimeter can only have a sigma proportional to 50-100%, but by using the ADRIANO dual-readout technique that error percentage can be brought down to 25-35%. This is done using layers of lead glass dense enough to initiate showers and refractive enough to disentangle EM particles by taking advantage of the property of Cerenkov light with layers of plastic scintillator that give a reading for charged particle interactions and can be calibrated to disentangle EM, hadronic, and even neutral particles. The beauty of using lead glass to initiate a particle shower is that it eliminates the need for a layer of dense metal, which both cannot provide data and absorbs some of the energy. Through many steps of simulation primarily facilitating SLAC's SLIC program, I was able to show the degree to which our ADRIANO prototype absorbed energy and the promise dual-readout calorimetry holds for future particle detectors.
FNAL-UC Abstract 2014 - SHOLO: Simulated Holometer Data
K. Nam
G. Dzuricsko and I. McNair, De LaSalle Institute
C. Stoughton, Fermilab
The Fermilab Holometer is an experiment designed to detect and measure holographic noise, a fundamental uncertainty in position as a result of the quantization of space time. This summer, I worked with Chris Stoughton and the Holometer team to simulate the data and results that will be seen by the experiment. However, the measurement of holographic noise is overwhelmed by various other sources of noise, most prominently the uncertainty in the measurement of light, known as shot noise. In order to greatly increase the ratio of the signal to external noises and therefore accurately measure holographic noise, I calculated the cross correlation of the shot noises produced by the interferometers in the experiment. This analysis tool used frequently in signal processing minimizes the level of uncorrelated noise, and by finding a pattern while calculating the cross correlation for varying numbers of Fourier transforms, I simulated the shot noise involved with the Holometer's long integration times. By incorporating the theoretical prediction for holographic noise, I build a simulation representing the data and the predicted levels of holographic noise and cross correlated shot noise. Moving forward, the Holometer team will use this produced simulation to test their observations.