SMU Summer Workshop 2022

8:30  Welcome breakfast

9:00 AM Opening & Intros
Registration (https://forms.gle/VeuyjybWkgMvCUji6), Sign-in, Update QN Account, Intros, News from QuarkNet Central

9:30  Setting the Stage

• From the big to the small
• Map of physics (video), and others

10:00  Data Activities Portfolio

• Shuffling the Particle Deck

10:45  Break

11:00  Neutrino Tutorial

• Link

9:00 Opening & Discussion, Sign-In

9:15 What is a Masterclass?

• Slides
• Email Shane if interested
   

9:30 DAP: Mean Lifetime Part 2: Cosmic Muons (wrap up from yesterday)

• Muon lifetime tutorial from e-Lab
• QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Detector
• Plots for Analysis
• Resources for cosmic ray analyses online

10:00 NOvA Tutorial

• How to make a beam of neutrinos
• Group Questions (resource):
  • How does NOvA work?
  • Summarize NOvA's research goals.
• NOvA time-lapse video

10:45 Break

11:00  NOvA - Part 1

• Part 1 Theory & Far Event Intro Slides
• Charged Current (NuMu) Event Images
  • CC (NuMu) Track Length Reporting
  • Results of Track Length Reporting

9:00 Opening Discussion
 

9:15 DAP Activities - Tracks: 

• Slides
• Making Tracks I (cloud chamber)
  • student record page
  • cloud chamber video
• Making Tracks II (bubble chamber)
  • FNAL bubble chamber
  • example event

10:00 DAP Activities: 

•  Mass of the Z

  • video: The LHC, Don Lincoln
  • slides
  • "human tricks"
  • data/events
  • KEEP FOR FRIDAY!!

11:00 Physicist Talk: Black Holes (Krista Smith)

9:00 Opening & Discussion

• Some data to consider
  • Data

9:30 CMS Masterclass Measurement - Finish

• i-spy webgl (event display)
• CIMA (record data)
• Pro result
• discussion
• tour the MC library

10:00 DAP: Variations on RwR

• slides
• simulation

11:00 Physicist Talk: Dark Matter (Robert Calkins)

9:00 AM Opening & Discussion
 

9:10 Activity: Where's Higgs?

• Link
• Video

11:00 Physicist Talk: Higgs (Allison Deiana)

1:00 DAP: The Case of the Missing Neutrino

• slides
• events
• helpful spreadsheet
• Video clip: Neutrinos: Nature's Ghosts? (Don Lincoln)

1:45  DAP: Mean Lifetime Part 1: Dice

• spreadsheet
• sample data

2:00  Break

2:15  DAP: Mean Lifetime Part 2: Cosmic Muons and/or Mean Lifetime Part 3: MINERvA

• MINERvA Data
• spreadsheet
• Cosmic Data - tomorrow?

4:00  End of Day 1

1:00 NOvA - Part 1.5

• Neutral Current Event Images  
  • Neutral current track length recorder
  • Results of track length reporting
• Near/Far (solutions)

2:00 Break

2:15  NOvA - Part 2

• Part 2 Near analysis slides
• Python Near event analysis  - Participant version
  • Do a "File - Make a copy"
  • Github link
  • Teacher "answer key"
• Even Bananas video

3:30 PM End of day discussion

4:00 PM  End of Day 2

1:00 Teacher share-A-thon

• Joel
  • Using the Fluid Filled (Word, Google Doc)
• Kevin
  • The Physics Classroom
• Bruce
• Others?

2:00 CMS Masterclass Measurement

• slides
• i-spy webgl (event display)
• CIMA (record data)
• "cheat sheet"
• discussion

4:00 PM  End of Day 3

1:00 PM CMS Session 4

• TOTEM 1 - slides
  • Student page
  • Tally Sheet
  • Data
  • Spreadsheet
• Break
• TOTEM 2
  • Tally sheet
  • Data
  • (New-Draft) Teacher page

3:30 PM End of day discussion

4:00 PM  End of Day 4

1:00  Activity: Look for Higgs in data from CMS

• Intro slides
• Start simple: Z mass
  • Need a scientific calculator? Check your phone, or here's one!
  • Spreadsheet-1 (Make a copy of this in order to perform your calculations.)
• Explore 4-lepton events
  • Event Display
  • MassReport
• Where's Higgs?
• Spreadsheet-2 (Refer to this as a group for results and analysis.)

3:00 PM Concluding Session

• Implementation Plans - discussion & plans
• Survey
  • Survey Update OR
  • Full Survey (if you did not complete full survey anytime in 2019-2021)

3:20 PM  End of workshop