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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 & take data Cosmic Ray e-Lab exploration upload & analyze data. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays.

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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 & take data • Cosmic Ray e-Lab exploration upload & 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 Active QuarkNet Centers

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab stats: June 2009 • 622 teachers accounts • 1162 student research groups • 20,000(ish) analyses run • 317 detectors in high schools • 21029 data files • 321 posters

  8. 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

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

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

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

  12. 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 • Provide resources and analysis tools • Trust the teacher to guide research

  13. 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 e-Labs

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

  15. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  16. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

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

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

  19. 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

  20. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • CRMD expectation: --> not “plug&play” --> rather “mold&set” Direct analog of the big detectors in Tevatron and LHC

  21. 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

  22. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

  23. 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

  24. 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 Ray e-Lab and UPLOAD data

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

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

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

  28. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

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

  30. 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

  31. 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

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

  33. 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

  34. 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

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

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

  37. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

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

  39. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Go to: REGISTRATION 1st: change password -->Update your previously created groups. !! min 6 characters: alpha/numeric !! 2nd: create Student Group -->Register student research groups. Select “pencil”: yes pre/post test 3rd: add DAQ# -->Update detector IDs for your group.

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

  41. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

  42. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

  43. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

  44. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic Workflow & Milestones

  45. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

  46. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Pause: live action demo --> UPLOAD data: follow me --> GEOMETRY: review tutorial

  47. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

  48. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays ‘nother live action demo --> PERFORMANCE study What is this telling us? Why do this study? Compare? Contrast?

  49. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

  50. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

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