
Johns Hopkins University QuarkNet Center

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Description
Welcome to the Johns Hopkins University QuarkNet center. We meet on the campus of JHU and serve teachers in the surrounding area.
Link to create an elab account and/or QuarkNet account

Teachers may want to request an elab account (for use with the CRMDs as well as the CMS elab and LIGO elabs) or a QuarkNet account. We use the latter to post and share documents within the group and for all of QuarkNet.
2016 JHU Summer Workshop - Agenda / List of Talks

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Monday 25 July
9:00-10:00 Introduction to QuarkNet (Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS)
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10:00-11:00 Special Relativity in a LIGO Context (Dr. Bruce Barnett, JHU)
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11:00-12:00 Resonances ("Bumps") at the LHC (Dr. Andrei Gritsan, JHU)
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Tuesday 29 July
9:00-10:00
General Relativity in a LIGO Context (Dr. Bruce Barnett, JHU)
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10:00-11:00
Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter? (Dr. Marc Kamionkowski, JHU)
(link to paper on arXiv)
(link to primary author Simeon Bird's talk at STScI on 20 July 2016)
(youtube videos: laser interferometer basics; publicity video from original discovery; second discovery including "chirp" sound of the merger!)
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11:00-12:00
Accelerator Physics (Dr. Morris Swartz, JHU)
Some youtube videos: the one that Morris showed; a slightly longer one with more details)
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Wednesday 30 July
9:00-10:00 Modeling the Frictional Force (Dr. Mark Robbins, JHU)
Link to online version of a 2005 talk at Kitt Peak
Webcast of a Public talk at Kitt Peak
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10:00-11:00 ISE Workshop in Greece; or, "My Quarknet Junket." (Mr. John Pisanic, Damascus HS)
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11:00-12:00 The Role of Muon Lifetime (updated) in the Standard Model Dr. Morris Swartz, JHU)
Andrei Gritsan gave a talk about Higgs stuff 2 years ago; talks more about "metastable universe" and Higgs potential stuff.
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Thursday 31 July
9:00-10:00 Summer Students: Summary of Research
Click here for their posters (PDF) and summary abstracts.
(Hereford HS: Jack, Kyle)
(Richard Montgomery HS: Tatiana, Simon, Jason, Isabelle)
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10:00-11:00
Radio Astronomy in the classroom (Kevin Martz, Richard Montgomery HS)
Histograms in the classroom (Jeremy Smith, Hereford HS)
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11:00-12:00 Nanotechnology (Dr. Joan Hoffmann, APL) (link pending Dr. Hoffmann's approval)
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Miscellanea
Rick Dower provided a parts list for the interferometer he showed us yesterday. (Word Docx)
He also has an activity for showing diffraction patterns from a spring, to show similarity to DNA X-ray diffraction pattern!
Tim Durkin has a worksheet he uses with the Powers of Ten videos/animations (Word Doc)
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Friday 1 August
9:00-10:00 Status of the CLASS experiment (Dr. Joseph Eimer, JHU)
Bonus: What does the word "flat" mean in cosmology? (Physicsgirl on YouTube)
Bonuss: Watch our "map" of the cosmic microwave background improve in resolution from COBE to WMAP to Planck. (YouTube)
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10:00-11:00 Brightly Shining Black Holes (Dr. Julian Krolik, JHU)
Bonus: Watch some animations of the stars orbiting the Milky Way's center!
Bonuss: Dr. Krolik and his team's NASA -published simulation of a black hole accretion disk
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11:00-12:00 M83 Supernova Remnants (Dr. Bill Blair)
Bonus: Dr. Blair's 2010 talk about the survey (PPT); another by his colleague Knox Long (PDF)
Bonuss: Dr. Blair's "How Big is a Billion?" talk
Here is a link to download SAOImage DS9, a free software package for viewing telescope images that has Chandra X-ray images pre-loaded into it. And here is the Chandra Education page that explains how to use it. Main Chandra Ed page here has lots more!
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JHU QuarkNet 2016 Summer Workshop

Click here for the agenda and list of talks for the day.
Click here for the summer student research posters and abstracts.
2015 JHU Annual Report

QuarkNet Annual Report 2015
JHU Center
The JHU QuarkNet center had another successful year, involving both high school teachers and students in its activities. The one-week teacher workshop took place from 20-24 July, and the six-week student internship ran from 30 June to 9 August. We had several teachers from the JHU center use their cosmic ray muon detectors throughout the year, and our center also participated in the 2015 CMS Masterclass.
- Teacher Workshop
During the first morning, teachers and students listened to a variety of talks from professors from the Physics & Astronomy department of JHU, as well as a talk from co-lead teacher Kevin Martz. A list of talks, with links, follows:
Dr. Morris Swartz - History of Particle Physics Discoveries
Mr. Kevin Martz - Neutron Diffraction Physics
Dr. Andrei Gristan - Matter in Space & Time
For the rest of the week, teachers participated in two QuarkNet-hosted workshops: the CMS Data Workshop and the CMS e-lab. Both of these workshops entailed using real data from the LHC CMS experiment to infer properties about particles produced in the proton-proton collisions. See here for a link to the agenda for the week's activities.
In both of the workshops, teachers took advantage of the resources available in the QuarkNet Data Portfolio, an ever-growing set of student-centered activities and curricular resources that are intended to help teachers incorporate particle physics concepts into their classrooms.
- Student Research
9 students (4 from Damascus HS; 5 from Hereford HS) participated in a 6-week summer research internship beginning on 29 June and running to 7 August. After a short series of introductory activities, students were set loose to pursue research topics of their own choosing. Alongside this theoretical research, students also designed and conducted experiments with the QuarkNet muon detectors: one group attempted to determine a correlation between muon flux and time of day; another group attempted to determine the mean lifetime of the muon once brought to rest inside the scintillating material.
See our Drupal page for a list of topics, the research abstracts, and PDFs of the summary posters:
Posters:/document/research-posters-2015
Particle physics history from Morris Swartz

EQUIP for use with CRMDs

Neutron talk by Kevin Martz from Monday, July 20

Link for Perimeter Institute

The wave-particle duality activity that we did on Monday afternoon was from the Perimeter Institute. Not all materials are available for free on the web, but please investigate their website.
www.perimeterinstitute.ca
CMS@JHU

July 21-24, 2015
Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/qn-cms-jhu15.
CMS Data Workshop
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 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
Times and specific activities are subject to adjustment.
Tuesday 21 July09:00 Coffee, Registration, and Daily Opener 09:15 Introduction/Objectives/Overview/Data Porfolio 09:30 Presentation: CMS and LHC Run II 10:30 Break 10:45 Level 1 Data Portfolio Activities: 11:45 Reflection on Activities 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Level 1 Data Portfolio Activities: Each group chooses one. 14:00 Break 14:15 Level 2 Data Portfolio Activity: 15:30 Reflections on Activities and Discussion 16:00 End of Day |
Wednesday 22 July09:00 Coffee/Recap of Yesterday/Plan for Today 09:15 Level 2 Data Portfolio Activitiy: CMS Masterclass Introduction 10:00 CMS Virtual Visit 10:30 Level 2 Data Portfolio Activitiy: CMS Masterclass Measurement 11:30 Reflection on Activity and Discussion 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Level 3 Data Portfolio Activitiy Exploration: CMS e-Lab 14:00 Reflection on Activity and Discussion 14:15 Break 14:30 Implementation plans (form) 15:15 Reports and Discussion 16:00 Evaluation and Close
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CMS e-Lab Workshop
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 23 July0:900 Registration and Coffee 09:15 Intro discussion 09:30 Physicist presentation on LHC and detectors 10:30 e-Lab first look
12:00 lunch 13:00 TOTEM Data Express 14:30 Z mass plot in e-Lab (start at metro map)
16:00 End of day |
Friday 24 July09:00 Coffee and chat 09:15 Intro redux 09:30 Discussion and creation of research questions
10:00 Group work: investigations, posters
12:00 lunch 13:00 Finalize posters 13:30 Present posters 14:30 Discussion:
15:30 Implementation Survey 16:00 End of workshop |
FYI
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