PROGRAMS for 2007-2008
![Summer Workshop for Associate Teachers
June 25 - 27, 2008, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine
The UC Irvine QuarkNet Center will be holding a Summer Workshop for associate teachers during Wednesday June 25 - Friday June 27, 2008. This is an exciting time for particle physics in view of the imminent commissioning of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together local high school teachers to learn about particle physics and possible ways to integrate particle physics into high school curriculum. In addition, teachers will have opportunities to present and exchange ideas on effective implementation of physics education. At the workshop, teachers will also learn to build a Cosmic Ray Detector as well as having hand-on experience with real particle physics data from LEP experiment through the Particle Physics Masterclass.
Application:
Application Form can be downloaded here: QN08 Application
Please fill out the application form and send it in by FAX to (949) 824-2174 Attn: Taren Aprati (QN Application). It can also be sent electronically to Mu-Chun Chen at muchunc [at] uci.edu. Applications received by June 6 will receive full consideration. Applicants interested in having the Cosmic Ray Detector for their schools should send in the application by May 25 and should send an email message as early as possible to Professor Chen at the above email address to indicate your interest. Accepted teachers will be notified by June 15.
For more information, please contact Professor Mu-Chun Chen via email at muchunc [at] uci.edu.
Program: all activities will take place in Frederick Reines Hall Room 4135
Wednesday 25th June:
09:00 Coffee
09:15 Welcome/Intros (Chen)
Schedule
Logistics
09:45 QuarkNet Overview (Whelan)
10:15 Cosmic Ray Science and Search for High Energy Neutrinos (Silvestri) [pdf]
11:15 Break
11:30 Cosmic Ray e-Lab (Whelan)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Cosmic Ray Detector: hardware and components
Assemble CRD: assist by QN staff (Whelan) and Lead Teacher (Baker)
four teams --> assemble four counters
one team --> plan DAQ/GPS placement
plan study type: distributed array? stacked array?
measure GEOMETRY
data-taking: 'hyperterm' procedure
15:30 Break
15:45 Final assembly of detector with GPS
Rough calibration
Take CR data overnight
16:15 End of first day
Thursday 26th June:
09:00 Coffee
09:15 Discussion of goals
09:30 e-Lab login: verify accounts
CRD data UPLOAD w/geometry
PERFORMANCE study/discussion
10:30 Break
10:45 Particle Adventure (Chen) [pdf]
11:25 Particle Detection (Bondioli) [pdf]
12:05 Extra Dimensions and other cool ideas (Shirman) [pdf]
12:45 Lunch
13:45 e-Lab analysis: assist by QN staff (Whelan, Cecire) and Lead Teacher (Baker)
five teams
mini-research on overnight data and/or other data on e-Lab
Choices:
• FLUX study: compare to other data
• AIR SHOWER study
• Use PERFORMANCE study to help compare data
15:45 Discuss results of studies
Adjust detector
Take CR data: overnight
16:15 end of 2nd day
Friday 27th June:
09:00 Coffee
09:15 Debrief
UPLOAD data
10:00 search data/continue study
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Create posters
14:00 Discuss posters and results of research
15:00 Discussion of classroom application
Discussion of further collaboration
16:00 Workshop ends
Participants:
Associate Teachers:

Lead Teacher:
Robert Baker (University Senior High School, Los Angeles, CA)
QuarkNet Staff:
Ken Cecire (Hampton University)
Kris Whelan (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
Lecturers:
Mario Bondioli, Mu-Chun Chen, Yuri Shirman, Andrea Silvestri
Administrative Assistant:
Taren Aprati
UCI QuarkNet mentor:
Mu-Chun Chen](2007-2008_files/shapeimage_2.png)
