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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 experience the excitement of scientific collaboration in this series of investigations into high-energy cosmic rays.

Students use conservation laws and vector addition to calculate the Z mass from event displays.