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Cosmic Ray e-Lab Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Cosmic Ray e-Lab Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays. QuarkNet Overview QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Detector Assemble CRMD hardware and take data. Cosmic Ray e-Lab Exploration Upload and analyze data. Teaching and Learning

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Cosmic Ray e-Lab Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

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

  2. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • QuarkNet Overview • QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Detector Assemble CRMD hardware and take data. • Cosmic Ray e-Lab Exploration Upload and analyze data.

  3. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Workshop Objectives: • Assemble CRMD: plateau, geometry, data-take. • Record progress: LogBook. • Design e-Lab investigation: data, tools, plots. • Write poster, present results. • Share “Implementation Plan” and strategy.

  4. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Workshop Expectations: • success and skill respond to full attendance • hours and schedule: 0900 – 1600 (ish) • best to focus only on CRMD and e-Lab • hopefully, no other distractions • can the group meet at another time for other stuff?

  5. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Active QuarkNet Centers

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Stats: May 2010 • 774 teachers accounts • 1,515 student research groups • 519 DAQs worldwide • 335 detectors in high schools • 27,548 data files • 498 posters

  9. 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

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

  11. Cosmic Rays at Earth Primaries (protons, nuclei) Secondaries (pions) Decay products (muons, photons, electrons) Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays 1-2  per second

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

  13. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Wealth of open, cool science questions • ?: WX, lightning, biology, climate, data bits, solar storms • CR e-Lab--> not prescriptive, not recipes • Provides resources and analysis tools • Trusts the teacher to guide research

  14. BIG science: Students copy/reproduce Auger --> Argentina http://www.auger.org MINOS Far Detector --> Soudan Mine, Minnesota http://farweb.minos-soudan.org/events/ CMS --> LHC, CERN, Switzerland http://cms.cern.ch/ IceCube --> South Pole http://icecube.wisc.edu/ --> QuarkNet Cosmic Ray e-Lab Studies: Direct analog to detector-based particle physics Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  15. Teachers & students: Assemble. Calibrate. Set-up and run. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  16. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  17. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

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

  19. The QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Muon Detector (CRMD) Plastic scintillator Homegrown DAQ GPS timing Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  20. 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

  21. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • CRMD Expectation: --> Not “plug & play” --> Rather “mold & set” Direct analog of the big Tevatron & LHC detectors CDF DZero ATLAS CMS

  22. 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.

  23. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  24. 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 study • Student defined

  25. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays NEXT SESSION: Break out into small teams. --> Assemble cosmic ray muon detectors. 4 counters: one team each DAQ/GPS: one team Next: Cosmic Ray e-Lab and UPLOAD data

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

  27. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Explore tonight. Cosmic Ray e-Lab portal: http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

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

  29. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  30. Cosmic Ray e-Lab Exploration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

  31. DAQ hardware measures: Light pulse timing. Ambient temperature. Atmospheric pressure. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab • Experiments include: • Flux studies. • Time correlation. • Shielding. • Particle speed. • Particle lifetime. • Altitude attenuation.

  32. Raw Data Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab 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

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

  34. There are more e-Labs on the horizon . . . LIGO - weeks away CMS - months away ATLAS - a year away Other science with large data sets . . . SDSS? Mars Rover? weather? ocean? Investigate further? --> www.i2u2.org e-Labs

  35. Major Strengths of e-Labs First time: teachers and students --> GRID Large cluster of machines at Argonne National Lab GRID gateway at University of Chicago e-Labs: same structure & format, “look/feel” e-Labs

  36. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

  37. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic Login Username: Password:

  38. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab

  39. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab • Cosmic Ray e-Lab --> Learner Outcomes • Students will know and be able to: • Content and Investigation: • Process: • Computing: • Literacy:

  40. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab • Cosmic Ray e-Lab --> Assessment • The e-Lab provides: • Rubrics. • e-Logbooks. • Milestone seminars.

  41. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab

  42. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab Go to: REGISTRATION 1st: Change password. -->Update your previously created groups. !! min 6 characters !! !! alpha/numeric !! !! no spaces !! 2nd: Create student group. -->Register student research groups. Select “pencil”: yes pre/post test 3rd: Add DAQ #. -->Update detector IDs for your group.

  43. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Debrief: Summarize in LogBook

  44. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab

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  46. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab Quick Links

  47. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab

  48. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab Students can tour the site.

  49. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab Project Map

  50. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab

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