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Development of an international Masterclass with the public data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

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12th Cosmic Ray International Seminar

CRIS 2022

Naples, Italy, September 16, 2022

Raul Sarmento for the Pierre Auger Collaboration

raul@lip.pt

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Pierre Auger Observatory

outreach

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  • Visitor’s centre at Malargue
  • Science Fair
  • Outreach webpage
  • Social networks

https://labdpr.cab.cnea.gov.ar/ED/

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Auger Open Data

opendata.auger.org

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  • 2021 public release of 10% of the observatory data
  • Standard SD, hybrid, weather and space-weather data
  • + Several educational, analysis and visualization tools
  • Stay tuned for upcoming releases

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Auger Open Data

opendata.auger.org

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  • Shower events: 22731 (SD) + 3156 (hybrid)
  • Pseudo-raw and reconstructed data in JSON format
  • Example event: highest energy multi-eye event

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Auger Open Data

opendata.auger.org

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  • 3D display made with Unity

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Auger Open Data

opendata.auger.org

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  • Analysis notebooks based on python, run on kaggle

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International Masterclasses

particle physics

  • Activity inspired in the IPPOG model
  • For high-school students worldwide
  • “Scientists for one day with the hands on particles”

http://physicsmasterclasses.org

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International Masterclasses

particle physics

  • Agenda for the day:
    • Morning: introductory talks
    • Afternoon: experimental activity + videoconference

http://physicsmasterclasses.org

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Auger Masterclass

concept

  • 3D display interface
    • event reconstruction: arrival direction + energy
    • event selection

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  • Python notebooks
    • smoothed, exposure-corrected sky map with reconstructed arrival directions of selected events

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Auger Masterclass

experimental activity

Starting point

SD stations time and signal only

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Auger Masterclass

experimental activity

Reconstructed event

energy

arrival

direction

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Auger Masterclass

first international event

  • 9th of May, 2022
  • 80 high-school students
  • 6 cities of Portugal and Italy

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Auger Masterclass

first international event in Braga

introductory lecture + detector demonstrations

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Auger Masterclass

first international event in Lecce,

L’Aquila

data analysis

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Auger Masterclass

first international event in Lisbon, Coimbra

setting the

video conference for discussing the results with peers

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Auger Masterclass

first international event in Naples

final quiz + group photo

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Auger Masterclass

students performance

  • 667 reconstructed events that matched the selection criteria
  • By eye, same pattern as Auger’s
  • Scalable to the full statistics available

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Summary

outlook

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  • Successful development and test of an international masterclass with the public data of the Pierre Auger Observatory
  • Formal proposal for implementation
  • Hopefully, starting worldwide soon!

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Thanks for the attention!

Questions?

You may contact me at:

raul@lip.pt

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Acknowledgements

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