Advisory Board Meeting

1. Advisory Board Meeting Data Projects Thomas Jordan FNAL jordant@fnal.gov T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002

2. Advisory Board Meeting NSF ESIE Proposal: . . . To facilitate classroom change, we will provide access to a wide variety of online instructional resources including raw datasets and primary sources, and manipulative,interactive and physical materials. . . . August, 1998 Wesley Smith, University of Wisconsin, CMS TrDAS: . . . There should be a trigger dedicated to QuarkNet. . . .

3. Advisory Board Meeting . . . Raw Datasets . . . We feel that this will be iterative and have made two first-order attempts to prepare for “live” data: • Run II website • Online cosmic ray detector

4. Advisory Board Meeting Run II Website:

5. Students are “particle detectives” searching for Higgs in the: channel. IF YOU HAVE NEW INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS PARTICLE, PLEASE CONTACT THE NEAREST ACCELERATOR LABORATORY OR PHYSICS DEPARTMENT. Advisory Board Meeting Run II Website:

6. Advisory Board Meeting Run II Website: They use three types of data. . . . Plots from the experiments Excel spreadsheets Student generated plots

7. Advisory Board Meeting Run II Website: . . . and make cuts on b lifetime & W mass, as well as generate di-jet mass plots. Thanks to John Conway (Rutgers, CDF Higgs group) for the Monte Carlo Higgs and background data. Also to William Wester (FNAL, CDF) for the data for Z and W reconstruction.

8. Advisory Board Meeting Online Cosmic Ray Detector:

9. Advisory Board Meeting Online Cosmic Ray Detector: An array of three scintillating plastic counters A dedicated DAQ reads out the PMTs, discriminates the signals and performs all of the trigger logic. Two triggers: >1-fold coincidence, decay candidates A serial connection ports trigger data to an Apple machine in my office which cleans and writes the data to AFS space (QNet webserver).

10. Advisory Board Meeting Online Cosmic Ray Detector: 106854F1 15 1186D095 15 42178501 55 04 0003 4B59C7A4 55 02 0002 144ABE04 55 01 0004 07EB85B2 55 01 0003 04BF6439 15 155B8605 55 04 0004 19D8B40A 15 08D2E613 15 04D70BED 55 02 0004 028F9734 15 0A698FCC 15 00A03EC0 15 18983398 15 12438718 15 0BA4DC02 15 091303A6 15 4118EFAF 15 1C41BF62 55 04 0002 1E8D2FA2 56 02 0005 0D499D43 15 1A9E1246 15 08D1C16B 15 142F3E6E 15 00CEAADD 13 0C1E6AAD 15 1886B7E2 55 02 0004 0781D207 55 04 0002 0001545D 51 03 01C2 00008BBC 51 01 0006 001B5FD0 51 01 00C2 08CF5AC1 55 02 0004 04674DAF 15 0A765889 13 0479AA86 15 0A8D50B4 15 35C52035 55 02 0004 0E713BBC 15 0F6DC58C 55 02 0003 0B7D7752 15 0FA58EEF 55 04 0003 3D24BE87 55 02 0004 057AFC69 15 0B2B70B1 15 18AAB1CD 55 04 0004 1CAFC452 55 02 0004 00D530B9 15 04DB3F52 15 1487F7C9 55 01 0004 098088F5 55 01 0004 343790A8 55 02 0004 08AF9AAE 15 02F8956F 55 04 0003 0A468B80 55 02 0003 1ECFB4C5 15 455AC628 54 02 0003 08478852 15 Data are written in 24-hour blocks—each block starts at noon Greenwich time, the beginning of a new Julian day. At 12.00 GMT, my computer: • Stops the current data run. • Starts a new data run. • Cleans up the data from the previous day: • Makes a backup of the original, converts from hex to decimal, and writes events to file: one for each trigger.

11. Advisory Board Meeting Online Cosmic Ray Detector: Students can use the data to study flux as well as events that satisfy the decay trigger. The plot shows decay candidates from the middle counter during the first several weeks of running.

12. Advisory Board Meeting NSF ESIE Proposal: . . . To facilitate classroom change, we will provide access to a wide variety of online instructional resources including raw datasets and primary sources, and manipulative, interactive and physical materials. . . . August, 1998

13. Advisory Board Meeting Manipulative, Interactive and Physical Materials: We have ~50 of these cosmic ray detectors in QuarkNet classrooms and will soon have >100.

14. Advisory Board Meeting Who Uses These Materials? • Students & Teachers in QuarkNet classrooms - Jason Fox • Teachers - Bill Lamb and Jeff Rylander • University Faculty - Mike Strauss and Darin Acosta • QuarkNet Nodes - Everyone @ UIC node has a detector Unfortunately, we have no hard data to answer the question, only anecdotes.

15. Advisory Board Meeting Next Steps: Set up and test pilots, make edits, broaden audience. Finish current batch of detectors. Investigate the value-added of the classroom detectors. If that investigation is favorable, find a way to make more. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002