Attracting High School Student
Participation in Particle Physics
Research
Helene Dauerty
St Joseph’s HS/Univ. of Notre Dame
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QuarkNet
A national program that partners high
school teachers with particle
physicists working at the energy
frontier in hadron collider physics.
High school students are attracted into
involvement through contact with teachers.
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Vision
• Give teachers a partnership in the research
associated with the experiments.
• Reach into high schools through classroom
transfer.
• Work for geographic and cultural balance.
• Operate the program for an extended period
of time so that it can have impact (>5yr).
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If You Build It...
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...They Will Come!
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Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
Fermilab
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Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
• Vision
– A community of researchers including faculty,
postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students and
high school teachers and high school students.
• Location
– 929 N. Eddy Street, just south of campus.
– A fully functional research lab.
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Serves CMS, DØ experiments.
Houses office, lab spaces, and student experimental areas.
SBIR program on scintillator development.
Cosmic Ray Detector Development.
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QuarkNet Collaboration
Teachers
Physicists
Students
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D. Sadawi and D. Wiand working on
CMS HCAL project
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ND QuarkNet Center - Staff
• Mentors
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• Lead Teachers
Jim Bishop
Dan Karmgard
Randy Ruchti
Mitch Wayne
• QuarkNet Staff
• Pat Mooney
• CMS/DØ Staff
• Barry Baumbaugh
• Jeff Marchant
• Mark Vigneault
• Administration
• LeRoy Castle, La Porte
• Dale Wiand, Adams
• Associate Teachers
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Ken Andert, LaLumiere
Beth Beiersdorf, LaSalle
Jeff Chorny, LakeShore
Helene Dauerty, St. Joseph
Maggie Jensen, Gavit
Tom Loughran, Trinity
Kevin Johnston*, Jimtown
Rick Roberts*, Clay
• Jennifer Maddox
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Teachers’ Meeting
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QuarkNet Staff and Teachers
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High
High School
School Students
Students
• 1999
– D. Dickerson, Adams
– D. Saddawi, Adams
• 2000 (45 Applicants)
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R. Bhavsar, Adams
R. Bourke, LaLumiere
M. Busk, Trinity
Z. Clark, Jimtown
P. Davenport, Trinity
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A. DeCelles, Trinity
N. Garg, Clay
J. Martin, Clay
S. May, Adams
G. Outlaw, LaSalle
R. Ribeiro, Trinity
R. Smith, Jimtown
J. Tristano, LaLumiere
K. Whitaker, LaSalle
R. Wiltfong, Riley
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QuarkNet Students - Summer ‘00
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ND QuarkNet Summer 2000
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Student Schedule
Morning Shift: 7:30am-1:00pm
Afternoon Shift: 12:00pm-5:30pm
work at QuarkNet Lab or Nieuwland Science Hall
Luncheon interactive physics discussions and/or seminars:
12:00pm-1:00pm
At QuarkNet Lab
discussions: Karmgard, Mooney, Ruchti
seminars: Bigi, Cushing, Hildreth, Konigsberg (UFL),
Lynker (IUSB), Wayne
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DØ Experiment - Making Fiber-optic
Waveguide Bundles
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Wayne Seminar
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Konigsberg Seminar
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Fermilab
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Faculty Fermi Trip Summer ‘00
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QuarkNet Picnic Summer 2000
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School Year Participation
• Classroom transfer of Particle Physics
• Field trips
– Fermilab
– Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
• Science Alive!
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Particle Physics - the Energy Frontier
A key equation:
E 2 = p 2c 2 + m 2 c 4
New Physics:
Higgs Bosons
Supersymmetry
String Theory
Hidden Dimensions
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Adams HS visit to
ND QuarkNet Center
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LaSalle HS Visit to Fermilab/D0
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Science Alive
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The Future
• Tevatron Run II Data Analysis
• Student Webcasts of Run II Activities
• CERN-Building optical detector units
(ODUs) for Compact Muon Solenoid
(CMS), run scheduled to start in 2005
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CMS Experiment at LHC
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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