ATLAS Education and Outreach Committee

ATLAS Overview Week, FreiburgOctober 2004  

Michael Barnett - Lawrence Berkeley National LabOctober 6, 2004

ATLAS Education and Outreach Committee    Michael Barnett and Erik Johansson – Co-Convenors

80 people attended committee meeting here on Sunday.

(recent agenda items)

• Budget matters

• CERN's 50th anniversary and Open House

• ATLAS tours

• ATLAS animated film

• Revised Website

• Event displays

• Posters now available (and a little controversy)

• New public brochure

• ATLAS physics textbook

• Photographs of work in the cavern

• LHC Deck of Cards

• News from ESOF and EPOG

• New English version of Hands on CERN

• CDROM and DVD

Status of animated film of ATLAS for the public and students

Project initiated by Amelia Maio and Lisbon group.

US-ATLAS employing João Pequenão (who created the “installation” movie) now working at Berkeley.

The public animation has three episodes:

1. Overview – Draft ready for comments

2. Particles in ATLAS – In progress (need shower info)

3. Physics in ATLAS – Not started

Your suggestions, criticisms, and comments on the draft work are needed.

Status of animated film of ATLAS for the public and students

Episode 2 – components statusViews complete; particle passage in progress• Pixel detector• Tilecal

Views complete; particle passage in planning• SCT• Liquid Argon Cal• Muons

Technical diagrams expected soon• TRT

“Particle passage” = how they work.Need particle shower image in calorimeter.

Narration is essential and will be added when graphics work is complete.

Animated film now in Stereo 3D

In order to give a superior perspective and yield a more dramatic film, stereo 3D using red-cyan glasses.

This is a work in progress.

Overall effect very good, but some sections work better than others.

Narration is essential and will be added when graphics work is complete.

Animation in Stereo 3D

Fold glasses so blue is on your right.

Episode 1 – 3D effects visible only when detector assembly begins.

Episode 2 – Pixel segment begins immediately after episode 1.

Note – TileCal segment not yet in 3D.

http://pdg.lbl.gov/~pequenao/Movies.html (please look for most recent version)

Image from new animated film of ATLAS

Image from new animated film of ATLAS

Image from new animated film of ATLAS

Image from new animated film of ATLAS

Image from new animated film of ATLAS

Alternative colors needed for 3D Stereo

Upgraded Public Website

Please see ATLAS.ch

Includes a 40-second Flash animation showing aspects of the ATLAS Experiment.

Gives access to the ATLAS movie, photos, PowerPoint animations, live webcams, and four

“e-Tours”.

LHC Deck of Cards

• The four LHC experiments + LHC project• Initial printing: 10 000 decks– Clubs – Standard Model and Big Bang– Diamonds – CERN + history– Hearts – Alice + LHCb + LHC– Spades – ATLAS + CMS + LHC

LHC Deck of Cards

LHC Deck of Cards

ATLAS Posters

Now available

ATLAS Posters

Now available

New public brochure:now available

(cover page very similar to the poster)

New public brochure: page 4

ATLAS ModelRutherford Appleton Laboratory: The ATLAS model has been designed to be taken apart during a lecture to reveal the successive detection layers. (It could of course also be built up during the lecture.) The model is built of wood and plastic, and the removable pieces are held in place largely though magnetic strips embedded in the structure. A LED at the centre can be switched on to indicate the collision region. http://hepweb.rl.ac.uk/ppep/exhibits/LHC/atlas/ATLAS.htm

Euroscience Open Forum 2004 in Stockholm