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In 2007, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will begin to generate opposing 7 TeV proton beams. What might 14 TeV collision yield? Find the Higgs? Supersymmetry? Gravitons? Exotic particles?. First, a look at CERN : imagecern2min.rm. How will we respond as Physics teachers?
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In 2007, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will begin to generate opposing 7 TeV proton beams.
What might 14 TeV collision yield? • Find the Higgs? • Supersymmetry? • Gravitons? • Exotic particles?
First, a look at CERN: image\cern2min.rm
How will we respond as Physics teachers? • Does it matter? • What will we do? • What will QuarkNet do?
The QuarkNet website: a good start http://quarknet.fnal.gov
The QuarkNet Cosmic Ray eLah is a prototype for CMS and ATLAS eLabs.
Can we get this sort of student/teacher analysis of LHC data?
Beth Marchant and I went to the CMS meeting at CERN in search of… • Ideas • Facts • People We found them all…
We got the ball rolling: • Weblog QN Postings at http://quarknet.blogspot.com • ATLAS Images at http://www.jlab.org/~cecire/ATLASimage/ATLASimage.ppt
ATLAS: A Toroidal Lhc ApparatuS • Largest detector • Assembled 100 m underground • Characterized by its giant toroidal magnets
In the cavern… December 2005 July 2005
CMS: the Compact Muon Solenoid • Most massive • Still above ground • Will be lowered in sections • Nice place for a party?
More about CMS…
People… Dan Karmgard, UND and CMS (QN-PI), with raclette Silvia Schuh, ATLAS
Other sights in and around CERN… Beth in CERN Restaurant #1
The Bear the blows bubbles in the shopping mall of Val Thoiry
And in Zurich… The Borg The view from Uetliberg
Where do we go from here? • How might the Puerto Rico QN center respond to the LHC? • What would help your class? • What would interest your students? • What would you like to see from QN?