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Cosmic e-Lab Collaboration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Cosmic e-Lab Collaboration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays. QuarkNet overview QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Detector assemble CRMD hardware & take data Cosmic e-Lab exploration upload & analyze data. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays.

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Cosmic e-Lab Collaboration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

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  1. Cosmic e-Lab Collaboration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

  2. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • QuarkNet overview • QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Detector assemble CRMD hardware & take data • Cosmic e-Lab exploration upload & analyze data

  3. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Active QuarkNet Centers

  4. Cosmic Rays Sources Composition, energy spectrum Detection Current experiments Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • The QuarkNet Classroom Detector • Hardware overview • Classroom use • Experiments, measurements • Data Analysis • Upload, analyze data & save data products • Share results • Enter logbook notes

  5. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Paradigm: a good way to learn science? --> participate in data-based science • ask cosmic ray questions • marshal a research plan • engage hardware and technology • analyze realistic, not simulated data • share results with collaboration

  6. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays May 2008 • 419 teachers accounts • 835 student research groups • over 65,000 analyses run • 314 detectors in high schools • 15275 data files • 192 posters

  7. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • QuarkNet creates a collaboration of users • Teachers <---> Students • Teachers <---> Mentor Scientists • Detector Schools <---> Non-Detector Schools • World-wide network: Students <--> Students

  8. Sources of Cosmic Rays Supernova remnants Active galaxies (?) Quasars (?) Gamma Ray Bursters (?) Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  9. Cosmic rays at earth primaries (protons, nuclei) secondaries (pions) decay products (muons, photons, electrons) Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays 1-2  per second

  10. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Run: CR shower video if fast connection http://astro.uchicago.edu/cosmus/projects/aires/protonshoweroverchicago.mpeg

  11. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Wealth of open science questions • Students participate in active, big science • QuarkNet --> not prescriptive, not recipes • Provide resources and analysis tools • Trust the teacher to guide research

  12. BIG science: Auger --> http://www.auger.org MINOS Far Detector --> http://farweb.minos-soudan.org/events/ CMS --> http://cms.cern.ch/ --> QuarkNet Cosmic Studies: direct analog to detector based particle physics e-Labs

  13. Teachers & students assemble calibrate set-up & run Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  14. Overview: Cosmic Ray Muon Detector Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

  15. The QuarkNet Classroom Detector Cosmic Ray Muon Detector (CRMD) plastic scintillator homegrown DAQ GPS timing Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  16. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays CRMD Typical QuarkNet Detector Setup Counters-scintillators, photomultiplier tubes (two shown) 2. QuarkNet DAQ board 3. 5 VDC adapter 4. GPS receiver 5. GPS extension cable 6. RS-232 cable (to link to computer serial port) 7. Optional RS-232 to USB adapter (to link to computer USB port instead of serial port) 8. Lemo or BNC signal cables 9. Daisy-chained power cables

  17. DAQ Hardware measures light pulse timing ambient temperature atmospheric pressure Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Experiments include • Flux studies • Time correlation • Shielding • Particle speed • Particle lifetime • Altitude attenuation

  18. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  19. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Types of counter configuration • 1) array --> shower • counters distributed • 2) stacked --> flux • counters spaced on common center • Determined by type of CR study • Student defined

  20. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays NEXT SESSION: Breakout into small teams --> Assemble Cosmic Ray Muon Detectors 4 counters: one team each DAQ/GPS: one team Next: cosmic e-Lab and UPLOAD data

  21. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • QuarkNet cosmic e-Lab Teacher Accounts • Email the following: • Name: • Account Name: • School: • City/Country: • Email: • To: Bob Peterson • --> rspete@fnal.gov

  22. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Explore tonight Cosmic e-Lab portal: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab -->LIBRARY-->STUDYGUIDE

  23. There has to be an easier way . . . cosmic e-Lab <-- tomorrow Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  24. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  25. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  26. Cosmic e-Lab Exploration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

  27. DAQ Hardware measures light pulse timing ambient temperature atmospheric pressure Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Experiments include • Flux studies • Time correlation • Shielding • Particle speed • Particle lifetime • Altitude attenuation

  28. Raw Data Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays 02F17C70 AE 3E 23 30 00 01 00 01 01BAB196 053657.359 260105 A 10 0 +0365 19262F0A 80 01 00 01 00 01 3B 01 1814BD14 053706.358 260105 A 10 0 +0365 19262F0B 28 01 00 01 00 01 01 2A 1814BD14 053706.358 260105 A 10 0 +0365 19262F0C 01 21 00 01 00 01 00 01 1814BD14 053706.358 260105 A 10 0 +0365 23246B23 A5 34 00 01 00 01 2E 3A 2203DEA2 053710.358 260105 A 10 0 +0366 . . . 2453396 6341848883424871 6341848883426071 12.00

  29. There has to be an easier way . . . -->Cosmic e-Lab Lower the threshold to analyzing real data Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  30. But there are more e-Labs on the horizon…… Ligo -- weeks away CMS -- months away Atlas -- year away Other science with large data sets…. SDSS? Mars Rover? weather? ocean? e-Labs

  31. Major strength of e-Labs…… First time teachers and students --> GRID Large cluster of machines at Argonne Nat’l Lab GRID gateway at Univ of Chicago e-Labs: same structure & format, “look/feel” e-Labs

  32. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic e-Lab portal: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  33. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  34. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab Login Username: Password:

  35. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  36. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  37. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  38. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab Workflow & Milestones

  39. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  40. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Pause: live action demo • Login • Goto: REGISTRATION • Add DAQ# • UPLOAD data: follow me

  41. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  42. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  43. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • ‘nother live action demo • PERFORMANCE study What is this telling us? Why do this study?

  44. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  45. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  46. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  47. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  48. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab Follow upper right:  My Logbook

  49. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

  50. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab

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