LHC Fellows Workspace

Submitted by kcecire

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.

Images and Files, May-June 2017

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LIGO e-Lab workshop template 2017

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Submitted by kcecire on Thu, 05/04/2017 - 15:55

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 1

09:00     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: 

  • log in with account
  • create student account
  • review Resources and Project Map
  • try out features
  • Seismology Review

14:30     Break

14:45     Search and analyze in data:

16:00     Review day

  • Objectives met
  • Objectives not yet completed.

16:30     End of Day

Day 2

09:00     Coffee/Reflection

  • What is the thread that ties what we are doing together?
  • What worked and did not work yesterday?
  • How are we doing on the objectives?
  • Hot off the press.

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

  • take-aways from the workshop
  • what you learned beyond the objectives
  • what you would like to learn more about.

15:30     Evaluation

16:00     End of workshop

Resources

Contacts

 

Images and Files, Jan-Apr 2017

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cmsintro 2017 sketchpad

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What CMS Masterclasses are about The CMS Masterclass Institute

Enduring Understandings

These are points we want students to remember long after the masterclass:

  1. Particle physics research requires the use of indirect evidence to support claims.
  2. The Standard Model is the current theoretical framework for our understanding of matter.
  3. The behavior of particles is governed by conservation laws and mass-energy conversion.

Philosophy

This is how we try to go about it:

  • Students analyze data from engaging, interective event displays.
  • All data is from actual events in the CMS detector released for educational or public use.
  • The tasks should be sufficient and challenging enough to engage students and help them gain physica s insight by asking good questions.
  • The tasks should be seen as doable by all students with a minimal high school physics background.
  • The event analysis uses pattern recognition but takes students beyond it by leaving scope for judgement, anomallies, and imperfect data.
  • Event analyses stress the probabilistic nature of the data, the importance of statistics, and determining how to distinguish signal from background.

Recommendations for a Successful CMS Masterclass

N students - N≤30 - N/2 computers - N/10 mentors/tutors

 

The optimal number of students is about 30 or fewer. It is possible to have more but please proceed cautiously.

 

Two students to a computer: they can help each other and check each other's judgements.

 

At least one physicist to every 10 students. In some cases, a teacher with a developed background in masterclasses can help bend this ratio.

 

Enduring Understandings

Philosophy

Recommendations for a Successful CMS Masterclass

These are points we want students to remember long after the masterclass:

  1. Particle physics research requires the use of indirect evidence to support claims.
  2. The Standard Model is the current theoretical framework for our understanding of matter.
  3. The behavior of particles is governed by conservation laws and mass-energy conversion.

This is how we try to go about it:

  • Students analyze data from engaging, interective event displays.
  • All data is from actual events in the CMS detector released for educational or public use.
  • The tasks should be sufficient and challenging enough to engage students and help them gain physica s insight by asking good questions.
  • The tasks should be seen as doable by all students with a minimal high school physics background.
  • The event analysis uses pattern recognition but takes students beyond it by leaving scope for judgement, anomallies, and imperfect data.
  • Event analyses stress the probabilistic nature of the data, the importance of statistics, and determining how to distinguish signal from background.

N≤30 students

The optimal number of students is about 30 or fewer. It is possible to have more but please proceed cautiously.

 

N/2 computers

Two students to a computer: they can help each other and check each other's judgements.

N/10 mentors/tutors

At least one physicist to every 10 students. In some cases, a teacher with a developed background in masterclasses can help bend this ratio.

 

Images and Files, Sep-Dec 2016

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LHC fellows work session, 5-7 August 2016

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Contents:

Overall schedule:

  • Friday 5 August:
    • 09:00-12:00 CT at Fermilab
    • 13:00-18:00 CT go to work in Chicago
  • Satuarday 6 August, 09:00-17:00 CT at Fermilab
  • Sunday, 7 August in Chicago - see special QN@ICHEP agenda

To do list:

We will set priorities each morning and divde the work up by small teams, checking in with each other frequently and reporting at the end of the day. We will not likely get everything done but we will make a real, helpful progress.. 

Notes from Sudha Balakrishnan on needed items for CMS e-Lab:

  • Milestones:  Choose a study.  BTW, the logbook will be inaccurate until all the Milestones are fixed.  
  • Milestones:  Select Data.
  • Milestone:  Choose appropriate analysis tool.
  • http://i2u2-dev.crc.nd.edu/elab/cms/data/ (Index page when you click 'Data').  Does this need any change?  Is it ok as-is on dev?
  • Library-Resources section:
    • Calibration Studies screencast - remove?  
    • Exploration Studies screencast - replace?
    • 3-D Event Display screencast - is it up to date?
  • Contextual Help with the Analysis, like we have with the current version (under the Help question mark)?  In dev, it seems to be on the page, but it goes to the old screencasts.  cms/videos/demo-exploration.html provides access to 4 different videos.  
  • Site index:  There's no calibration anymore.  
  • Explore! page needs to be updated.
  • Site Tips:  Update special icons, like 'Help?'.

Enter your suggestions as a Comment below or in this Google Sheet.

Who will be here when:

Who Fri 5 Aug Sat 6 Aug Sun 7 Aug
Cecire X X X
Dower X X X
Glover X X X
Sedita   X X
Smith   X X
Wood X X X

 

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ATLAS Data Express Draft

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Submitted by kcecire on Thu, 07/28/2016 - 13:23

Introduction 

ATLAS Data Express is a short particle physics masterclass investigation that can be used as part of a workshop or as a short class project. Participants examine static displays of a limited number of events. The main goal is to separate Z candidate events other events by visual inspection and then create mass plot for the Z boson.

The Z boson is important in LHC discovery science and as a marker for calibration of LHC detectors: it is a well-known particle, so the location and width of the mass plot give physicists a good idea of how the detector is performing. The Z candidate events we will study are "dimuon"  events; the Z can decay into a muon-antimuon pair. Z candidates are identified by 2 long muon tracks; each will appear as a combination of a short blue track in the inner detector (inner black ring) and a longer orange track in the outer muon chambers (blue rings). Participants will search for Z candidates in the data.

Instructions

Individual or pair:

  • Participate in analysis prep seminar (slides) (ATLAS animation)
  • Open the event display file
  • Go to set of events assigned
  • Categorize and record each event as
    • Z → μ+μ- candidate (2 distinct muon tracks),
    • background (anything else).
  • For each Z candidate, note and record
    • the mass, rounded to nearest odd number (found at upper right of event) 
    • whether it is an electron or a muon event.
  • When finished, count how many instances of each odd number you have recorded.

Group:

Use your own resources to

  • Combine numbers of "odd masses" in all groups.
  • Create a histogram for whole group to observe.
  • Analyze other aspects of the data (optional).

Help: Use the Google spreadsheet.

Discussion

The histogram created by the group is a mass plot. Since the mass of any one type of particle is uncertain by nature and due to experimental uncertainty, it will have a distribution the peak of which is the experimental determination of the mass. Creation of mass plots and other histograms are the central measurements made in the CMS e-Lab but with many more events than used in this exercise.

 

Resources

CMS e-Lab Fermi Lab Center summer 2016

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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 2016

13:00   Introductions

13:30 What is CMS?

14:00   Z mass

15:00   Calibration data

15:30     End of Day

 

Resources

 

 

 

Friday 29 July 2016

09:00   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

 

Images and Files, Jul-Aug 2016

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