Skill: Uncertainty

Students are physicists for a day at a university or lab where they work with physicists to how to analyze real particle physics data in the form of event displays.

Students learn how physicists measure muon lifetime.

ATLAS Data Express is a short investigation in which students inspect and characterize Z events in the LHC and distinguish muons from electrons.

Students roll dice, record the resulting individual values as well as the sum of the values, create histograms of the data and develop insight into the concept of “degrees of freedom." 

Use quantum physics and LHC data to estimate the size of the proton.

CMS Data Express is a short investigation in which students inspect and characterize W or Z events from the LHC.

Students are physicists for a day at a university or lab where they work with physiists to how to analyze real particle physics data in the form of event displays.

Students create and interpret a histogram of penny masses.

Students have an opportunity to learn how to analyze data to calibrate the CMS detector and participate in discovery science (as particle physicists do).

Students use statistics to make an indirect measurement they can easily confirm.