LHCb and other outreach activities

1. LHCb and other outreach activities • as far as I know them…. • LHCb central activities : LHCb public web pages….. • LHCb outreach activities = outreach activities by LHCb people Richard Jacobsson, CERN

2. Outreach activities • Based on inquiry (one week…) • Many official CERN guides! • Val Gibson (Cambridge, UK) - lecture general, CP violation, LHCb : • The Cavendish experiment - biannual event for schools, incl visit to CERN • IBM summer program - lecture series on particle physics • International Undergraduate Summer Student School • Particle Physics Masterclasses - All UK institutes involved with particle physics invite ‘A’ level high school students for lectures and demonstrations • The Institute of Physics Teachers Update programme • Travelling lecturer at schools • Victoria Wright (Liverpool, UK) : • Particle Physics Masterclasses, Physics Olympics, GETSET • Pupil Researcher Initiative (Sheffield Hallam Univ.) - inform about science and academic research • Museum, exhibitions, Science books for children(!) • Involved in Science Communication Unit (Liverpool Univ) Richard Jacobsson, CERN

3. Outreach activities cont’d • Joao de Mello Neto (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) : • Series of ten lectures “Physics for Poets” for the general public - hope to make it a recurrent event • Glenn Patrick (RAL, UK) : • Frontier Physics for Teachers - Series of weekend workshops with lectures, tutorials and demonstrations • Particle Physics Masterclasses • Community Education and Public Lectures - new initiative with Univ. of Bath with lectures on particle physics for the general public • Sascha Schmelling (CERN) : • development of an interactive teaching and learning system for high energy physics (used in german schools) • development of curriculae for modern physics in Germany • supervising students and teachers working in the field of teaching modern physics • member of the committee and lecturer at the High School Teacher’s summer school at CERN • trainer for teachers in Rheinland-Pfalz/Germany in the field of modern physics Richard Jacobsson, CERN

4. 280++ 270 260 19 180 18 Number of group Number of students 15 15 1999 2000 2001(<June) 1998 Swedish schools at CERN • The visits are entirely organized from CERN (Kristina Gunne, SRC-CERN R. Jacobsson, CERN) • Problem : far and expensive ==> Offer wider program • 4-7 days => 2 days at CERN and a few days visiting Red Cross, UN, etc (K. Gunne) • Visit at CERN: • Introduction to CERN and particle physics • Visits to several sites • Lectures on different experiments • Visit to computer center, Microcosm, etc • Voluntary open discussion session about “anything” : 2 - 5 h Richard Jacobsson, CERN

5. Swedish teachers at CERN • “Physics research at the frontier”: • Training course for senior high school teachers • Held once a year 1992 - 2000 • 3-4 days / 10 - 30 participants (2001: 38 !) • Travel and accommodation organized by: • Course responsible and organizer at CERN: R. Jacobsson (K. Gunne) • Course definition: • To a large extent contents are driven by the participants • Introduction to CERN and particle physics • Visits to several accelerators and experiments + lectures • Lectures on particle physics + analysis on real DELPHI data (HoC) • Technology: Web, grid, p.p. in medicine, general, etc • Open discussions on science, man, society and the environment • Sometimes been combined with “Ecology of the Alps” (3-4 days) Richard Jacobsson, CERN

6. Particle Physics CD-ROM • Education package in particle physics aimed at s.h. students • James Gillies and R. Jacobsson • Ideas and material from many sources • Contents: • Particle physics divided into introduction + advanced • Accelerators divided into introduction + advanced • Detectors divided into introduction + advanced • Non-accelerator particle physics • Working projects in collaboration with Stockholm - Hands on CERN • Should be sufficient to study introductions • First version launched a bit more than a year ago • Metaphore : “Book/library style” • Tested by > 50 teachers (UK, Sweden, Greece) • Second version: • Acknowledge great help from summer student Olaf Lenz • Metaphore : “Walking around the CERN site” • Illustrating written material with more figures and animations • June 2001 Richard Jacobsson, CERN

7. Conclusions • Sorry for not having covered (surely!) all activities! • Manpower in LHCb…. • Many projects by individuals • Swedish visits: invaluable work by K. Gunne stationed at CERN • CD-ROM, may we find time to work on it…! • Some worries… Richard Jacobsson, CERN