SMU Workshop 2023 - Coding, Dark Matter, New Questions

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Southern Methodist University QuarkNet Center

 

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June 26-30, 2023 (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CT daily)

Location: Fondren Science Building room 060

Agenda:

Monday, June 26 Tuesday, June 27 Wednesday, June 28 Thursday, June 29 Friday, June 30

 

LINK: 3-Day Coding Workshop Agenda
Lead: Peter Apps

 

LINK: Dark Matter Workshop Agenda
(or see below)
Lead: Peggy Norris

New Questions in Particle Physics Workshop Agenda
(see below)
Lead: Ken Cecire

 

 

Thursday, June 29 - Dark Matter (Lead: Peggy Norris)

Link to today's agenda

9:00 Welcome

9:15 Evidence for the existence of dark matter

  1. The movement of galaxies
  2. The movement of stars within galaxies
  3. General relativity / gravitational lensing
    • Activity 3

10:45 Candidates for dark matter and how we detect them

11:30 Xenon1T Summary Article Jigsaw activity

12:00 LUNCH

13:00 Xenon1T Detector Response for WIMP candidates

  • Work through 4 GeV/c2 WIMP mass together
  • Each group work through analysis for a different WIMP mass
  • Report out by groups

14:45 ORID Discussion in small groups; feedback on pilot MC

15:15 What did you learn about dark matter today (post-assessment)? 

15:30 What questions do you still have about dark matter?

15:45 All hands meeting

16:00 Adjourn for the day

 

Friday, June 30 - New Questions (Lead: Ken Cecire)

9:00 Opening Activities

  • Introduction
  • Dice Activity
    • You will roll your die at up to 30 times, keeping track of your results in the provided spreadsheet.
      • Please only edit your assigned sheet number
      • Enter the results of your dice roll in column A. Please only put number (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6) in column A. 
      • Roll 30 times and record your result for each roll (column A).
      • Create a histogram of your results in your sheet? Does the histogram show what you expected?
      • We will look at combined results together.
  • Measuring the Z (plots) (histogram example)
  • Discussion: Random fluctuations vs.systematic error vs.blunders

10:15 Break

10:30 The W-mass conundrum

12:00 LUNCH

13:06  W mass wrap-up 

13:30  The muon has its moment

14:15  A new and odd particle

14:45  Break

15:00 The latest as of...yesterday

15:30 Final items

16:00 End of workshop

 

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