
LHC Fellows Workspace
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on Monday, October 8, 2012 - 10:48
This is where LHC and Neutrino fellows try out ideas, build agenda pages, and keep our important docs.
Description
Development and utilities for the QuarkNet LHC fellows.
Review: Intro to Standard Model and LHC

Foundational Question: What is the Standard Model?
Describe the Standard Model in brief, simple terms.
Resources:
Supplementary Activity: Describe the Standard Model through graphs.
Make plots of
A. Masses of fundamental particles as a function of year of discovery.
B. Masses of fundamental particles as a function of their lifetimes.
Resources:
Group Questions:
- Describe the difference between a lepton collider (like LEP) and a hadron collider (like the LHC).
- Describe how particles are accelerated in an accelerator.
- Describe the design of a particle detector (like DELPHI or CMS) in a collider experiment.
Resources from CERN:
- Accelerator Complex
- CMS
- DELPHI
- How a detector works
- Large Electron Positron collider
- Large Hadron Collider
More Resources:
- CMS detector animation
- Geometry of a Collider Detector
- LHC - How it works (video)
- Particle decays in DELPHI (screencast)
Hoiw to Report
Each group has a public Google slides presentation:
Notes 20-21 May 2017

Dave's CIMA Notes:
check on "timing out;" turn that off!
Presume tablet usable
On results spreadsheet, move summary results to top
Administrator option to show "grand totals," preferably with option to remove group from totals.... Maybe implement as a checklist of which groups to include in grand totals. Or maybe some way to switch on/off uploads or "cleanup"
Distinguish (color?) mu & e on histograms
Histogram for each student pair?
Possible supplemental graphs?
Discourage ATLAS automatically making histogram. But might make it clearer what needs to done to make histogram AND that it needs to be done.
Additional CIMA Notes:
LIGO Strand Notes

LIGO—what levels are needed to have scaffolding—
Level 0—what is a histogram, identifying a peak, how do you make that measurement -dice
Level 1 –
Getting to science as inquiry, signal to noise, period motion
Currently Missing-- we need a tidy signal to noise activity. Create a lab—
percent difference HERE scaling on a graph
scaffolding for novice teachers—authentic science inquiry
Level 2 – examining the signals that have been historically created for Higgs and whether it is significant, Bin Size, Here sigma or the significance of the outlying data
Level 3 is the e-Lab getting back to supporting the facts.
It is time to update the data that is available in LIGO e-Lab to reflect the collision data between the two black holes detected in 2016
An advanced approach will be to use data with master class, CMS, to include noise vs. less noise
And this approach within Ligo that can be used more globally across other e-Labs, looking at data from other e-Labs to support this same enduring understanding
1. What other supports can we provide to less-experienced teacher?
Next level for teachers—teachers modeling and engaging with authentic science for students.
We can produce an activity that grounds teachers and introduces students to authentic science practices.
Science as a way of doing things to learn things—frames of reference? Period of a pendulum?
Birds eye view, what is the motion? Motion on a
Motion of peak to peak, different frames of reference can you merge your signal with other’s signal to get something that is real?
Supports to novice teachers is the process of getting the factors that do impact the period
And the signal to noise stuff is showing the data that mass is not a signal, length is
2. Are there things that we can expand out sideways that we can address?
Periodic motion
Interferometry, interference, phase relationships
Beats/sound
Ripple tanks
Double slit
Diffraction
Totem master class—level 2 as well
Level 4 activity?—programming?
LIGO group #1
Level 0— dice histogram - signal
Level 1 -- period of the pendulum inquiry
Scaffolded for novice science teacher for authentic way to learn science
Percent difference as signal to noise strand next step
Introduction to periodic motion, waves, phase, etc.
Level 2 – Does NOT currently exist—analyzing historical particle discoveries
Getting more advanced with signal to noise, sigma or other statistical analysis
Level 3 – Ligo e-Lab
Would LOVE to have the e-Lab now include the black hole collision data
Level 4 -- Programing as a way to access the data?
May 20 Fellows what we did ---now the 21st

Discussed expanding and improving masterclasses.
brainstorming on coding possiblilities for level 4 LHC actitivies
Poked around (found bugs) in CMS e-Lab. Brainstorming organizing of using the new interface in workshops and explorations.
still need
CIMA
and the rest of the agenda
assistance
30 hrs in a day
Day 2
still working on the specs.....but did video conference with Tom McCauley and Joel Griffith on CIMA, ISpy, CMS elab and data sets....talked about Adam's Level 4 activity with IT team
Still need to do lots of stuff with neutrinos
Ligo----discussed topics for the data strand....specific ideas for specific ideas activities to be worked on ..in future
Started coverage plans for summer work
did not look at templeates for workshops
need to do
Workshop coverage,
Templetate update for CMS elab
Neutrino MasterCalss
Complete Ligo activities
W2D2
Connection to Zoom

Topic: Neutrino Masterclass
LHC, Neutrino, and LIGO goals and objectives, May 2017

Page updated August 2019.
Objectives for:
LHC fellows workshop goals, 20-21 May
In their breakout sessions, the LHC fellows will:
- Create design specifications for enhanced version of CIMA and iSpy for the CMS masterclass.
- Create speciofications for a neutrino data strand and a neutrino masterclass.
- Create specifications for a LIGO data strand.
- Make a plan to increase the number of International Masterclasses in the U.S., especially ATLAS.
- Plan coverage of Data and e-Lab workshops for which the group is responsible.
- Update workshop plans and templates, with special emphasis on the CMS e-Lab. - temp URL https://i2u2-dev.crc.nd.edu/elab/cms/
- Start on Level 4 for CMS.
Data Workshop objectives
Participating teachers will be able to:
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Apply classical physics principles to reduce or explain the observations in data investigations
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Identify and describe ways that data are organized for determining any patterns that may exist in the data.
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Create, organize and interpret data plots; make claims based on evidence and provide explanations; identify data limitations.
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Develop a plan for taking students from their current level of data use to subsequent levels using activities and/or ideas from the workshop.
CMS e-Lab Workshop 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.
LIGO e-Lab Workshop objectives
Participating teachers will be able to:
- Plot and interpret data recorded by LIGO seismic instruments; address limitations in the data.
- Make claims based on evidence from LIGO data and provide reasoning.
- Describe the connections between LIGO seismic data and classical physics wave concepts.
- Explain the importance of LIGO seismic data in a gravitiational wave search.
- Develop a plan to implement material from the workshop in an educational setting.
LIGO e-Lab workshop template 2017

Dates, 2017
Objectives
Participating teachers will be able to:
- Plot and interpret data recorded by LIGO seismic instruments; address limitations in the data.
- Make claims based on evidence from LIGO data and provide reasoning.
- Explain the importance of LIGO seismic data in a gravitiational wave search
- Use LIGO seismic data to demonstrate classical physics concepts
- Develop a plan to use material from the workshop in school.
Agenda
Times and specific activities are subject to adjustment.
Day 109:00 Coffee, Registration, Introduction
09:30 Gravitational Waves presentation
10:30 Break 10:45 Interferometer activity 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Videos: 13:30 Exploration of LIGO e-Lab:
14:30 Break 14:45 Search and analyze in data:
16:00 Review day
16:30 End of Day
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Day 209:00 Coffee/Reflection
09:15 Begin resreach
10:30 Break 10:45 Continue research 11:30 Create posters 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Poster presentations 14:00 LIGO Hanford Virtual Visit 14:30 Break 14:45 Implementation discussion 15:15 Reflection: write/discuss
15:30 Evaluation 16:00 End of workshop |
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