Experimental Particle Physics in the Classroom: On beam or pipe dream

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Experimental Particle Physics in the Classroom
On beam or pipe dream?
CSAAPT Meeting October 2002
Kenneth Cecire Hampton University/QuarkNet
Warwick High School
This work is supported in part by the U.S.
Department of Energy and the National Science
Foundation.
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Whats the big idea?There are ways to . . .
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• Demonstrate how particle physics is done.
• Take actual particle physics data.
• Analyze those data.
• Dream even bigger dreams.

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This talk, like Gaul and some other things, is in
three parts
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• Accelerators
• Detectors
• The Holy Grail

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Accelerators
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Building Accelerator Analogs(quarknet.fnal.gov/to
olkits/ati/accelerators)
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Conserve p but not KE the SSC(Simple Snack
Collider)
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Using the energy of gravitons to accelerate
massive particles . . .
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the accelerator run begins . . .
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p 0 KE gt 0
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Electro-Magnetic Macroscopic Accelerator
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Lenzs Law defeats a fixed cookie-target.
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The Jawbreaker AcceleratorJust too cool!
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West Springfield HS Collider Group
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The First Collider Run
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Detectors
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Its raining muons out there!
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Physics with Real Elementary Particles
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• Study factors that affect muon flux.
• Calculate muon lifetime.
• Study air showers.
• Measure g-2.
• And ?

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Rochester area HS students report cosmic ray
results.
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Classroom Activities Using Our Dataquarknet.fnal.
gov/projects/
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• Applying Ohms Law
• Catchin Some Zs
• Measuring Single Photons
• Online cosmic rays
• Run II
• A Track of the Electrons

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How about a real electron accelerator?
quarknet.fnal.gov/toolkits/class/t-top/hcfrontpage
.html
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Whats next?
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Is this the Holy Grail?
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A classroom accelerator and detector system?
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URLs to Visit
Experimental Particle Physics in the Classroom

• http//www.jlab.org/cecire/toolkit/crdetectors.ht
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• http//www.lbl.gov/abc/cosmic/
• http//www.pas.rochester.edu/pavone/particle-www/
  
• http//www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/muon/muons.html
• http//quarknet.fnal.gov/toolkits/ati/
• quarknet.fnal.gov/toolkits/class/

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