Prework
- This link registers you with QuarkNet for the workshop.
- You are welcome to identify yourself with the Center at Fermilab/University of Chicago/College of DuPage.
- It also includes a place to request a new username for QuarkNet.org
- Or, also, a place to request a forgotten username.
- This link to the website is worth a look if you are not familiar.
- You can fill out the Join Us form under the About pull down tab.
- This may also help with the creation of a new username/password.
- This link is only the directions for how to update a profile on your user account on QuarkNet.org
- It would be good to check this profile information once things get set up.
- This link takes you to the login for the E-Labs. (It is all the way towards the bottom.)
- There is a place to request a teacher e-lab account. Click on the link and fill out the form.
- The e-lab account is separate from the quarknet.org account.
- Don’t forget the CAPTCHA math question at the end! (You are not a robot)
Tuesday July 29
09:00 Intro
- Welcome and overview of workshop – student hat vs. teacher hat
- Whip-around: Intros and "how are you doing?"
09:30 Discussion: Data Portfolio
09:45 Level 0 Data Activity: Histograms: The Basics (student sheet) (spreadsheet)
- Facilitator makes brief introduction
- Participants arrange in groups of 2-4; each group does Part I or Part II, using assigned sections of spreadsheet
- Reconvene: each group presents results
- All do Part III together as a discussion
- http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Histogram/
10:45 Break
11:00 Scientist Speaker:
- Intro to Science at Fermilab (Particle Physics 101)
- Pedro Machado
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Level 1 Data Activity: Histograms: Uncertainty
- Teachers complete measurements in Histograms: Uncertainty
- Histograms debrief
14:00 Level 2 Data Activity: Calculate the Z-mass (data) [break as needed]
15:30 Work on quarknet.org and e-lab logins
16:00 End of day
Wednesday July 30
09:00 Welcome back and opening discussion
09:15 CMS e-Lab Intro
- All log into e-Lab
- In breakout groups of 2-4, explore Project Map
- Debrief and discussion
09:30 CMS e-Lab first measurement intro (Z boson)
- What is the mass of the Z?
- How do we know from our measurement?
- What is the uncertainty in our mass measurement?
- Do we get different results for ee and mm plots?
09:45 Short Research projects
- Facilitator makes brief introduction
- Participants work in groups of 2-4; each group does a non-mass, non-Z plot
- Reconvene: each group presents results
10:45 Break
11:00 Implementation Plan (links spreadsheet)
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Don Lincoln talk: Standard Model, CMS, and other good things
14:45 “Bump hunt” Activity
- Facilitator makes brief introduction, reminder of Project Map
- All log into e-Lab
- Participants work in groups of 2-4; each group assigned a different plot (dimuon 2-110 GeV & dielectron 2-110 GeV)
- Bump hunt for particle resonances
- Reconvene to discuss
15:45 Summarizing discussion
16:00 End of Day
Thursday July 31
09:00 TRAC project talk
- Teacher, Joe Bedard
- Program Mentor, Angela Fava
- Scientist Mentor, Silvia Zorzetti
10:00 Research Activity (take break as needed)
CMS e-Lab topic: Making a poster
CMS e-Lab topic: Correlated plots
- Facilitator assigns each small group an area to research:
- Distributions in eta
- Distributions in phi
- Momentum vs transverse momentum
- Missing Et (neutrino events)
- Excited states of J/Psi and Upsilon (2–5 GeV)
- Helpful reference: Geometry of a Collider Detector
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Groups reconvene to finish research and make posters
13:00 Group poster presentations
13:45 Work on implementation plans (links spreadsheet)
14:45 Implementation plan sharing
15:15 Surveys
- QuarkNet surveys (complete one or the other):
- If a teacher completed the Full Teacher Survey anytime in 2023 or 2024, then complete the UPDATE: 2025 Teacher Survey once during 2025. (Plan for ~6 minutes here.) (Spanish version of Update Survey)
- OR...If a teacher did NOT complete the Full Teacher Survey anytime in 2023 or 2024, then complete The Full Teacher Survey. We ask that an individual teacher complete this only once in 2025. (Plan for ~15-20 minutes here.)
16:00 End of workshop