QuarkNet at LBNL 2025

Facilitators: Joel Klammer and Ken Cecire

URL for this page: quarknet.org/lbl-jun25

Student and Teacher Agenda

Wednesday June 18

Session 1, 10:45-12:00 PT

Making Sense of the Fundamental Particles

• Particle Cards
• Quark Workbench
• Discussion 
• Prep for Z mass measurement...you will need:
  • ATLAS or CMS event from the event images page - you will be assigned one
  • Protractor
  • Watch the intro screencast

Session 2: 14:45-16:00 PT

How to measure a boson

• Quark Workbench Notes
• Z-mass measurement (protractors) (calculators) (event images)
• Further learning: Watch A Day with Particles

Teacher Agenda

Thursday June 19

Session 1, 08:45-10:30

Start-up

• QuarkNet information and housekeeping
  • What is QuakrNet? - a refresher (slides)
  • Registration
  • About Evaluation
  • Data Activiteis Portfolio
• Physicist talk on Quantum 

Session 2, 10:45-12:00

Relativity Part 1

• Relativity Concepts Tutorial
• Data Activity: How Speedy Are These Muons?

Session 3, 13:00-14:30

Relativity Part 2

• Data Activity: Mean Lifetime Part 3: MINERvA (screencast) (data)
• Discussion

Session 4, 14:45-16:00

Quantum Physics

• Quantum Concepts Tutorial
• Data Activity: TOTEM Data Express
• Discussion