Women in Science & Neutrino/NOvA Masterclass - May 13, 2023

Women In Science & Neutrino/NOvA Masterclass
May 13, 2023

Small URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/surfnova23

Sanford Underground Research Facility
Education and Outreach Building

Full Agenda - 8:30 AM - 3:15 PM: Click Here for full day schedule

NOvA Masterclass Agenda:

Time Activities & Links
  9:30 - 10:30 AM (one group)
 10:30 - 11:30 AM (other group)

 Setting the Stage

 NOvA Analysis: Do we see evidence of neutrino oscillation?

 Slides 
 Part 1A: Far Detector CC/"NuMu" Events

  • CC/"NuMu" Images - link <-- Measure here
  • CC/"NuMu" Report Track Lengths - link <-- Record here
  • Results of track length reporting form <-- View together
 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (full group)

 Part 1B: Far Detector NC Events

 Part 2: Near Detector Events - use coding notebooks (begin)

 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM (full group)

 Part 2: Near Detector Events - use coding notebooks (finish)

 Discuss: Did we see evidence of neutrino oscillation? What is your reasoning?

 Concluding video: How Neutrino Oscillations Work - From Even Bananas

 

Women in Science links: 

 Alternate Python Near Event Analysis Participant Version - Only if Google CoLab is not available. 

  • Guide participants to click on the NOvA file from the list on the left.  It then should open in the main window.
  • To run it, click to place the cursor in the box with the imports.  Then click the "play" button in the top center left of the window.  That block should give  "libraries imported" text output (or the wording in the print command at the end of it).

 

Python key