LHCb Data Workshop at UC

09:00   Coffee and chat

09:15   QuarkNet Intro/Housekeeing (zoom with College of William and Mary)

• Registration
• Intro to QuarkNet
• Data Activities Portfolio
• Workshop must-do items

10:00   Data Activity 1: Quark Workbench

• Focus on mesons
• Discover meson combination rules
• Make D0 and B mesons

10:45   Break

11:00   Talk: Standard Model and LHC (Henderson) qnet_sm_intro_with_quark_model_july2025.pdf

12:00   Lunch

13:00   LHC(b) tutorial (notes)

14:00   Data Activity 2: Mean Lifetime

• Find "Lifetime" of dice (spreadsheet)
• Lifetime vs half-life
• Bonus, if time allows:
  • Plotting a Consensus

14:45   Break

15:00   UC Particle Activity: FeynHex - Michael Wilkinson

15:45   Recap

16:00   End of day

09:00   Coffee and chat

09:15   Talk: Introduction to LHCb - Jake Pfaller

10:15   Break

10:30   LHCb Masterclass Part 1: Event Display

• Note: Use Firefox
• Mass form
• Results spreadsheet
• Discuss results

12:00   Lunch

13:00   LHCb Masterclass Part 2: D0 Lifetime

• Lifetime form
• Results spreadsheet
• Discuss results

14:00   Break

14:15   DIY LHCb Open Data - small splash

• Results spreadsheet (make csv files)
• Google colab 

15:30   Discussion and recap

16:00   End of Day
 

09:00   Coffee and chat

09:15   Cloud chamber activities

10:15   Discussion: implementation 

10:30   Break

10:45   Create implementation plans

12:00   Lunch

13:00   Present implementation plans

14:00   Break

14:15   Student presentations

15:15   Center planning and evaluation

16:00   End of workshop