Relativity and More at ISU 2025

Objectives

At the end of this workshop, you will be partly able to:

  • Explain a some basic ideas of special relativity
  • Apply special relativity to explain particle physics phenomena.

 

Agenda

Monday July 21

Time (local) Activity Remarks
07:30 Registration Check-in/Sign-in
07:45 Unpack CRMDs  Identify non-working parts
08:15 Coffee, introductions, and setting the stage
08:45 Introductory Neutrino Tutorial

 

 

09:30 What I saw at CERN Stacey Floyd
10:00 Break  
10:15 Neutrino talk Prof. Eddie Tatar
11:15 Data Activity: How Speedy are these muons? pencil-and-paper version
12:00 Lunch  
13:30 Relativity Concepts Tutorial  
14:15 Data Activity: Mean Lifetime Part 3: MINERvA
15:00 Break  
15:15 Data Activity: Energy, Momentum, and Mass

 

16:00 End Day 1 *Prep CRMDs for plateau and experiment

 

Tuesday July 22

Time (local)  Activity Remarks
08:00 Check overnight data collection  
08:30 Coffee and discussion

Revisit Must-do items; implementation

09:00 Relativity talk Prof. Steve Millward
10:00 Break  
10:15 Application: Search for Higgs
  • Data Activity: Z Mass
  • Use CMS data:
    • iSpy
    • Spreadsheet
11:30 Discussion  
12:00 Lunch  
13:30 Circle back to neutrinos: MINERvA masterclass  
14:30 Summing up What do we know?
14:45 Break  
15:00

Discussion:

  • Implementation: Present tomorrow!
  • QuarkNet: How can we help you in coming years?
16:00 End of SR workshop Two-questions

 

Next 1-2 days:

Cosmic Ray Detectors 

Implemetation Plans - formulate and present

Evaluation surveys:

  • If a teacher completed the Full Teacher Survey anytime in 2023 or 2024, then complete the UPDATE: 2025 Teacher Survey once during 2025. (Plan for ~6 minutes here.) (Spanish version of Update Survey)

  • OR...If a teacher did NOT complete the Full Teacher Survey anytime in 2023 or 2024, then complete The Full Teacher Survey. We ask that an individual teacher complete this only once in 2025. (Plan for ~15-20 minutes here.)