QuarkNet
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Education/Outreach Effort
Randy Ruchti
University of Notre Dame
Education and Outreach
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Science and visitor centers at laboratories
Programs at various institutes and universities
Experimental Education/Outreach Coordination
REU – Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Education and Outreach Booklet
QuarkNet
RET – Research Experiences for Teachers
REHSS – Research Experiences for High School Students
Development of new curricula
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What is QuarkNet?
• Partners high school teachers with particle physicists who act as
mentors.
• Teachers get summer research experience.
• Centers are established where additional teachers, students and
physicists are included in the program.
• Program is funded by US NSF/MPS, NSF/ESIE and DOE
– Preliminary program 1998; Full program 1999 +
• Up to 60 centers are planned over a 5-year period.
• The proponents for this idea and project:
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M. Bardeen (Fermilab Education Office)
R. M. Barnett (LBNL, Atlas Education Coordinator)
O. Keith Baker (Hampton Univ)
R. Ruchti (Notre Dame, USCMS Education Coordinator)
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What are REU, RET, REHSS
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• REU
– Research Experiences for
Teachers
– Funded by NSF
– Research Experiences for
Undergraduates
– Funded by NSF
• US programs
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• US programs
National
– HEP specific
• US program at CERN
Univ. of Michigan
– HEP specific
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Any physics area
• US program at CERN
Northeastern Univ.
– Any physics area
• US program at CERN
Northeastern Univ.
RET
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HEP specific
REHSS
– Research Experiences for HS
Students
• Pilot program at Notre Dame
• Support from D0, CMS, ND
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Initially HEP specific
Intend any physics area
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Motivation
• Provide coherence to a national program of education and outreach.
– Strength in numbers and better planning. Affiliation with major projects.
• Provide resources and contacts over a sustained period of time.
– Continuity over several years for impact and evaluation.
• Attract teachers, students and the public to the excitement of physics at
the energy frontier.
– Building a community with scientific literacy and interest.
– Sustaining power.
• For successful US federal funding for a project, an education and
outreach component is required.
– A variety of strategies are required to accomplish a successful program.
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QuarkNet Centers in the US
Legend
Red – 3rd year
Green – 2nd year
Purple – 1st year
Blue – proposed
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QuarkNet Organizational Structure
4 PI’s
O. K. Baker
M. Barnett
5 QuarkNet Staff
M. Bardeen
R. Ruchti
Center Center Center
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B. Beiersdorf
K. Cecire
A. Erzberger
T. Jordan
P. Mooney
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2 Lead Teachers
10 Associate Teachers
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Active QuarkNet Centers
1999 Centers
Boston Univ.
Fermilab
Florida State Univ.
Indiana Univ.
Iowa State Univ.
Langston Univ.
Northeastern Univ.
Notre Dame Univ.
SUNY Stony Brook
Univ. of Iowa
Univ. of California at Santa Cruz
Univ. of Oklahoma
Univ. of Rochester
Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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Brookhaven Nat’l Lab.
Columbia Univ./Nevis Labs
Hampton Univ.
Michigan State Univ.
Southern Methodist Univ.
SUNY Albany
Univ. of California at Irvine
Univ. of California at Riverside
Univ. of Chicago
Univ. of Florida
Univ. of Illinois – Chicago
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Univ. of Washington
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2001 Centers
Argonne Nat’l Lab.
Florida Institute of Tech.
Iowa State Univ.
Lawrence Berkeley Nat’l Lab
Rutgers Univ.
Texas Tech Univ.
Univ. of Iowa
Univ. of Kansas
Univ. of Mississippi
Affiliation:
CMS, ATLAS, D0, CDF
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Expressions of Interest Received for 2002
2002 Center Candidates
Univ. of Arizona
Univ. of Cincinnati
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Univ. of Maryland
Univ. of Minnesota
Univ. of Northern Illinois
Univ. of Oregon
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Univ. of South Alabama
Univ. of South Carolina
SLAC
Vanderbilt Univ.
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Affiliation:
CMS, ATLAS, D0, CDF
Babar
Fixed Target
Non-accelerator
Astrophysics
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QuarkNet People
Principal Investigators: 4
QuarkNet Staff: 5
Lead Teachers: 66
Associate Teachers: 130
High School Students: large numbers
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A QuarkNet Year
• October: EOI submitted for new candidate centers.
• November: Formal proposals evaluated and approved. Teacher reunion
at Fermilab. Advisory Board Meeting.
• Winter/Spring: Lead teachers identified. Associate teachers identified.
AAPT Meetings.
• Spring: Webcasts of Tevatron Run II Startup.
• April: Mentor institute.
• June: Lead teacher institute.
• Summer: Research (up to 8 weeks). Associate teacher Institutes (1-3
Weeks).
• Other Institutes as available.
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Lead Teacher Institutes
1999 – Fermilab
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Overview - Lead Teacher Institutes
Topics Covered
Accelerators
Standard Model
Detectors
Future of HEP
Neutrino Experiments
Projects
Hands on: Helmholz Coils & Cosmic Ray Detectors
Individual investigation: Reconstructing Top Quark Events
Web-based: Learning about accelerators, detectors and particles
Team-based: Identifying Particles from Monte Carlo Data
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What QuarkNet Provides
• First Year
– 2 lead teachers, Fermilab Summer Institute, 8-week research
experience
• Second Year
– 2 lead teachers, 10 associate teachers, 3-week Center Institute
– Reunion Opportunity
• Third Year and beyond
– 2 lead teachers, 10 associate teachers, 1-week Center Institute
– Reunion Opportunity
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QuarkNet at Notre Dame
(an example)
Fermilab
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Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
• Vision
– A community of researchers including faculty, technical staff,
postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students and
high school teachers, high school students.
• Location
- Just south of ND’s campus.
- Fully functional research lab.
- Houses offices, lab spaces, and
student experimental areas.
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ND QuarkNet Center: Staff
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Physicists (Mentors)
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Jim Bishop
Dan Karmgard
Randy Ruchti
Mitch Wayne
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• Dale Wiand, Adams
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QuarkNet Staff
CMS/DØ Staff
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Associate Teachers
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• Pat Mooney
• Beth Beiersdorf
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Lead Teachers
Barry Baumbaugh
Jeff Marchant
Mike McKenna
Mark Vigneault
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Ken Andert, LaLumiere
Ken Andrzewski, Marion
Jeff Chorny, LakeShore
Helene Douerty, St. Joseph
Ed Fidler, LaLumiere
Maggie Jensen, Gavit
Tom Loughran, Trinity
Kevin Johnston, Jimtown
Rick Roberts, Clay
Gerry Van Laecke, Clay
Administration
• Jennifer Maddox
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QuarkNet Staff and Teachers
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Student/Teacher Involvement
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ND QuarkNet Summer 2000
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Notre Dame Center
Summer Activity
• Associate Teacher Institute (1-3 weeks)
– 12 Teachers involved
• Research Experience for Teachers (8 Weeks)
– 12 Teachers involved
– D0, CMS, Detector Development (SBIR), Cosmic Ray Detectors
• Research Experience for High School Students (8 Weeks)
– 13-15 Students involved.
– D0 Central Fiber Tracker
– CMS HCAL Readout Boxes/Optical Decoding
• Lectures, Tours, Scientific Discussions, Social Gatherings
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Program Derived from Detector R&D
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D0 Central Fiber Tracker
– Active targets based on Ce(3+)
coherent fiber-optic plates with
image intensifiers
– PS/3HF organic scintillator
– Multi-clad optical fibers
– Visible Light Photon Counters
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Cosmic Ray Detectors
– Based on Tb(3+) coherent fiberoptic plates with image intensifiers
– NASM- Smithsonian, CERN SX5
visitors gallery, Fermilab,
Snowmass 2001
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SBIR
– New scintillators/waveshifters
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• CMS HCAL
– Optical readout and decoding
of the sampling calorimeters
for barrel, endcap and outer
barrel subdetectors.
– Multi-clad optical fibers
– Hybrid photodiodes
Bicron
CHI
Ludlum
DEP
Litton
Kuraray
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Summer Student Research
1st Shift
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2nd Shift
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CMS HCAL Subsystem Locations
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Overview of RBX Placement
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ODU for CMS/HCAL
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ODU for CMS/HCAL
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ODU for CMS/HCAL
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ODU for CMS/HCAL
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Academic Credit
• Academic Structure
– 3-8 week summer research
• PHYS 598Q (teachers) 1-3 credits
• PHYS 098Q (students) 1-3 credits
– academic year research
• PHYS 598R (teachers) 1 credit
• PHYS 098R (students) 1 credit
– discussion sections, laboratory activity, field trips, seminars
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Directions – Summer 2002
• RET – Research Experiences for Teachers (regional)
– Astrophysics, Biophysics, HEP-CMS, HEP-D0, HEP-Det R&D,
Nuclear
– 8 weeks
• Modeling Workshop (national) in association with Arizona
State University
– Mechanics, Modern Physics
– 3 weeks
– Participants from QuarkNet Centers around the country
• REHSS – Research Experiences for HS Students (regional)
– Astrophysics, Atomic, Biophysics, HEP, Solid State, Nuclear
– 8 weeks
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Science Alive – Outreach to the
South Bend Community
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QuarkNet Outreach Activities
Student group under
direction of
Prof. Rick Van Kooten
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Indiana University
A university professor, five high
school physics teachers and 22
high school students worked for a
week: building, programming and
testing cosmic ray telescope
components. They also produced
the documentation and
electronics necessary so teachers
and students can build similar
telescopes when they return to
their schools.
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Summary
• QuarkNet, RET, REU, REHSS, + other initiatives serve to:
– Advance scientific literacy and culture in society.
– Provide a research emersion experience for teachers and students.
– Take a long term focus on societal needs as well as experimental
needs.
• Large scale physics and technical projects are a natural
way to further these aims.
• We are definitely underway toward an exciting future of
physics and associated educational opportunities.
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QuarkNet Websites
QuarkNet Homepage
http://quarknet.fnal.gov/
Run II Webcasts
http://quarknet.fnal.gov/run2/news.shtml
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Experiment Websites
FNAL Hadron Collider Experiments
CDF: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/
D0: http://www-d0.fnal.gov/
CERN Hadron Collider Experiments
CMS: http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/outreach/index.html
ATLAS: http://pdg.lbl.gov/atlas/atlas.html
Cosmic Ray Detector Movie
http://quarknet.fnal.gov/materials/detector.mov
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