2024 Particle Physics MasterClass
Monday February 26, 2024: 3:00pm - 5:30pm at Smithtown HS East, room 135
Monday March 4, 2024: 3:00pm - 5:30pm at Plainview - Old Bethpage (bus leaves from Smithtown HSE at 2:10 pm)
Wednesday March 6, 2024: 8:30am - 1:00pm at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL), Physics Building -
Bus leaves Smithtown HSE at 7:30 am
Bring your ID
Monday February 26, 2024: Smithtown HS East room 135 (downstairs)
Agenda
3:00 pm - food and introductions
3:15 pm - Dr. Winters: Introduction to subatomic particles
3:30 pm - Mr. Stuckey: history of Particle Physics
4:00 pm - Mrs. Wetzler: Particle Accelerators
4:30 pm - break
4:45 pm - Dr. Winters: W decay and useful links
5:25 pm - All: What you will need to know by next week
5:30 pm - adjourn
Useful links:
Particle Adventure: particleadventure.org/
Hands-on-CERN: http://www.physicsmasterclasses.org/exercises/hands-on-cern/hoc_v21en/
The Standard Model, presented by Fermi Lab's Don Lincoln: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYcw8nV_GTs&list=PLCfRa7MXBEsoJuAM8s6D8oKDPyBepBosS&index=6
Feynmann Diagrams, presented by Fermi Lab's Don Lincoln: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk1cOffTgdk&list=PLCfRa7MXBEsoJuAM8s6D8oKDPyBepBosS&index=39
Higgs Boson, presented by Fermi Lab's Don Lincoln: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIg1Vh7uPyw&list=PLCfRa7MXBEsoJuAM8s6D8oKDPyBepBosS&index=1
Hands on Particle Physics - W Path: atlas.physicsmasterclasses.org/en/wpath.htm
Hand on Particle Physics - W particle: atlas.physicsmasterclasses.org/en/wpath_lhcphysics2.htm
Monday March 4, 2024: Plainview Old Bethpage HS
Agenda
3:00pm - food
3:15pm - Review particles; questions
Mrs. Wetzler: W Boson
3:45pm - analyze data in pairs
5:15pm - Regroup
5:30pm - adjourn
More links:
Music and film:
Part 1 - Video of ATLAS detector: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxENLH1ATV4
Part 2 - Video of ATLAS detector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkzyDbMQ3E#t=20.567193
LHC Rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
Les Horribles Cernettes: LHC Collider
Trailer for Symmetry, a dance and opera that was filmed in the LHC:
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-opera-filmed-inside-the-cern-large-hadron-collider-1690675986/+chris-mills
Particle Fever: film sometimes available on Netflix, iTunes, or in a library near you
Elegant essay on the discovery of the Higgs Particle: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/science/in-higgs-discovery-a-celebration-of-our-human-capacity.html?_r=1
From Fermilab: Accelerator Science: Collider vs. Fixed Target https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf_k1KYAicE
US LHC site: http://uslhc.us/
ATLAS detector site: http://atlas.ch/
Analysis notes from previous years:
Start HYPATIA: Go to:
HSE-Assignments$
Particle Physics - Winters
Hypatia_7.4_Masterclass
Double click on (open) Hypatia_7.4_Masterclass.jar
Find your data: Go to:
File
Read Event Locally
HSE-Assignments$
-> Particle Physics - Winters
-> Hypatia_7.4_Masterclass
-> events
-> your data set directory
Double click on your data set
Click through your 50 events using Next Event and Previous Event arrows
Set the Hypatia program defaults following the instructions here: http://cernmasterclass.uio.no/material/Zpath-Cuts.pdf
How to identify the event: http://cernmasterclass.uio.no/material/Zpath-SignalEvents.pdf
Results:
Tally your results using your tally sheet
Insert events into the "Invariant Mass Table" at the top of the screen. Delete tracks that don't belong
Save your data: File-> Export Invariant Masses.
The file is called Invariant_Masses.txt by default (do not change it).
Place the file on your Desktop so you can easily find it.
Upload the Invariant Mass table to CERN:
Go to http://cernmasterclass.uio.no/OPloT/index.php
Select "Student"; ...
Monday February 26, 2024: 3:00pm - 5:30pm at Smithtown HS East, room 135
Monday March 4, 2024: 3:00pm - 5:30pm at Plainview - Old Bethpage (bus leaves from Smithtown HSE at 2:10 pm)
Wednesday March 6, 2024: 8:30am - 1:00pm at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL), Physics Building -
Bus leaves Smithtown HSE at 7:30 am
Bring your ID
Monday February 26, 2024: Smithtown HS East room 135 (downstairs)
Agenda
3:00 pm - food and introductions
3:15 pm - Dr. Winters: Introduction to subatomic particles
3:30 pm - Mr. Stuckey: history of Particle Physics
4:00 pm - Mrs. Wetzler: Particle Accelerators
4:30 pm - break
4:45 pm - Dr. Winters: W decay and useful links
5:25 pm - All: What you will need to know by next week
5:30 pm - adjourn
Useful links:
Particle Adventure: particleadventure.org/
Hands-on-CERN: http://www.physicsmasterclasses.org/exercises/hands-on-cern/hoc_v21en/
The Standard Model, presented by Fermi Lab's Don Lincoln: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYcw8nV_GTs&list=PLCfRa7MXBEsoJuAM8s6D8oKDPyBepBosS&index=6
Feynmann Diagrams, presented by Fermi Lab's Don Lincoln: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk1cOffTgdk&list=PLCfRa7MXBEsoJuAM8s6D8oKDPyBepBosS&index=39
Higgs Boson, presented by Fermi Lab's Don Lincoln: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIg1Vh7uPyw&list=PLCfRa7MXBEsoJuAM8s6D8oKDPyBepBosS&index=1
Hands on Particle Physics - W Path: atlas.physicsmasterclasses.org/en/wpath.htm
Hand on Particle Physics - W particle: atlas.physicsmasterclasses.org/en/wpath_lhcphysics2.htm
Monday March 4, 2024: Plainview Old Bethpage HS
Agenda
3:00pm - food
3:15pm - Review particles; questions
Mrs. Wetzler: W Boson
3:45pm - analyze data in pairs
5:15pm - Regroup
5:30pm - adjourn
More links:
Music and film:
Part 1 - Video of ATLAS detector: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxENLH1ATV4
Part 2 - Video of ATLAS detector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkzyDbMQ3E#t=20.567193
LHC Rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
Les Horribles Cernettes: LHC Collider
Trailer for Symmetry, a dance and opera that was filmed in the LHC:
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-opera-filmed-inside-the-cern-large-hadron-collider-1690675986/+chris-mills
Particle Fever: film sometimes available on Netflix, iTunes, or in a library near you
Elegant essay on the discovery of the Higgs Particle: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/science/in-higgs-discovery-a-celebration-of-our-human-capacity.html?_r=1
From Fermilab: Accelerator Science: Collider vs. Fixed Target https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf_k1KYAicE
US LHC site: http://uslhc.us/
ATLAS detector site: http://atlas.ch/
Analysis notes from previous years:
Start HYPATIA: Go to:
HSE-Assignments$
Particle Physics - Winters
Hypatia_7.4_Masterclass
Double click on (open) Hypatia_7.4_Masterclass.jar
Find your data: Go to:
File
Read Event Locally
HSE-Assignments$
-> Particle Physics - Winters
-> Hypatia_7.4_Masterclass
-> events
-> your data set directory
Double click on your data set
Click through your 50 events using Next Event and Previous Event arrows
Set the Hypatia program defaults following the instructions here: http://cernmasterclass.uio.no/material/Zpath-Cuts.pdf
How to identify the event: http://cernmasterclass.uio.no/material/Zpath-SignalEvents.pdf
Results:
Tally your results using your tally sheet
Insert events into the "Invariant Mass Table" at the top of the screen. Delete tracks that don't belong
Save your data: File-> Export Invariant Masses.
The file is called Invariant_Masses.txt by default (do not change it).
Place the file on your Desktop so you can easily find it.
Upload the Invariant Mass table to CERN:
Go to http://cernmasterclass.uio.no/OPloT/index.php
Select "Student"; ...