CMS e-Lab at Purdue

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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 27 June 2013

13:00   Exploration: What is CMS?

14:00   CMS Data Express e-Lab edition

15:00   Z mass plot (start at metro map)

16:00   End of day

Friday 28 June 2013

09:00   Housekeeping and mechanics

10:00   Explore posters in e-Lab

10:30   Discussion and creation of research questions

11:00   Group work: investigations, posters

12:00   lunch

13:00   Finalize posters 

14:00   Present posters

15:00   CMS e-Lab user group discussion

15:30   Evaluation  

16:00   End of workshop

Resources