UC QuarkNet Workshop Mike Sokoloff Brian Meadows Jeff Rodriguez

1. UC QuarkNet Workshop Mike Sokoloff Brian Meadows Jeff Rodriguez

2. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Agenda • Workshop Objectives - Cosmic e-Lab & Masterclass • QuarkNet Overview • Standard Model and Particle Physics • Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Masterclass Workshop at UC

3. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Workshop Objectives: • Obtain activities which introduce modern physics topics and cover multiple curricular objectives. • Monday  Wednesday Cosmic Ray e-Lab and Detector • Standard Model and Particle Physics • Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Assemble CRMD: possibly plateau, geometry, research, data-take. • Design e-Lab investigation: data, tools, plots. • Write poster, present results. • Share “Implementation Plan” and strategy.

4. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Thursday Friday Masterclass Masterclass Objectives: • Build capacity and expertise to help students participate in International Masterclasses • Make it possible to create a Masterclass-like exercise for students in the classroom • Learn more about ATLAS, the LHC, and particle physics • http://quarknet.us/library/index.php/Masterclass_Workshop_at_UC

5. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic e-Lab and Masterclass What are we doin’?  Bein’ kids!  Experience the activities from a students vantage  Inquiry-based learning

6. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Students and Teachers • 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.

7. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Alignment with National Science Education Standards • Content Standards A: Science as Inquiry - Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry and understandings about scientific inquiry B: Physical Science - Developing student understanding G: History and Nature of Science - Developing student understanding More standards and details on e-Lab website http://www18.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/teacher/standards.jsp

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9. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Active QuarkNet Centers Centers with detectors http://physicsweb.phy.uic.edu/quarknet/mapUS_international.html http://quarknet.fnal.gov

10. 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

11. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Stats: May 2011 • 899 teachers accounts • 1,813 student research groups • 537 DAQs worldwide • 357 detectors in high schools • 35174 data files • 811 posters

12. Particle Physics • The Standard Model

13. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cloud Chamber  QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Detector

14. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray shower videos http://www18.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/home/cool-science.jsp http://www18.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/home/index.jsp Shower over Chicago http://astro.uchicago.edu/cosmus/projects/aires/protonshoweroverchicago.mpeg What questions do you have about cosmic rays? Where do they come from? What are they? How are they measured? More details about Cosmic rays http://learnaboutenergy.org/quarknet/CRphysics.ppt

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

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

17. 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.

18. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Wealth of open, cool science questions • Weather, 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

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

20. Teachers & students: Assemble and Calibrate Detectors. Develop Questions. Set-up and experiment. Make Conclusions and experiment again. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

21. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Questions??? Break??

22. Overview: Cosmic Ray Muon Detector Jeff Rodriguez

23. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • CRMD Expectation:  Not “plug & play”  Assembling and thinking required Direct analog of the big Tevatron & LHC detectors CDF ATLAS CMS QuarkNet Note: Images are not to scale

24. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays The QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Muon Detector (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. Computer (PC preferred) 7. USB adapter or cable 8. Lemo or BNC signal cables 9. Daisy-chained power cables 6 http://www.learnaboutenergy.org/cosmic/

25. 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.

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27. 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

28. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays NEXT SESSION: Break out into small teams.  Assemble cosmic ray muon detectors. Assign groups to detectors Determine experiment set up for overnight data taking. Flux + Shower configuration 3. Tomorrow: UPLOAD data and Cosmic Ray e-Lab analysis tools.

29. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Explore tonight. Cosmic Ray e-Lab portal: http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic Cosmic Rays http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/cosmic_rays.html The Particle Adventure http://www.particleadventure.org/

30. Cosmic Ray e-Lab Exploration Jeff Rodriguez

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 CMS 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 Large cluster of computer servers at Argonne National Lab 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:

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40. Instructions for joining the community of e-lab users http://www.learnaboutenergy.org/quarknet/Blog-Facebook-Notes.pdf • Register to the I2u2 blog- Implementation plans will be uploaded here! More on implementations plans later http://www18.i2u2.org/blog/ • Register for the Facebook group – Search interactionshttp://www.facebook.com/login/setashome.php?ref=login#!/i2u2.org

41. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab Go to: REGISTRATION 1st: Change password. Update your previously created groups. !! min 6 characters : max 10 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.

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

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

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49. Teaching and Learning with the Cosmic Ray e-Lab Pause: Live action demo  UPLOAD data:Follow me.  GEOMETRY:Review tutorial.

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