H. Dauerty Attracting HS Student Participation in HEP AAPT Meeting 11 Ja2001nuary
Attracting High School Student Participation in Particle
Physics Research
Helene DauertySt Joseph’s HS/Univ. of Notre Dame
H. Dauerty Attracting HS Student Participation in HEP AAPT Meeting 11 Ja2001nuary
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.
H. Dauerty Attracting HS Student Participation in HEP AAPT Meeting 11 Ja2001nuary
• 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).
Vision
H. Dauerty Attracting HS Student Participation in HEP AAPT Meeting 11 Ja2001nuary
If You Build It...
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...They Will Come!
H. Dauerty Attracting HS Student Participation in HEP AAPT Meeting 11 Ja2001nuary
Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
Fermilab
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• 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.
• Serves CMS, DØ experiments.
• Houses office, lab spaces, and student experimental areas.
• SBIR program on scintillator development.
• Cosmic Ray Detector Development.
Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
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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
• Jim Bishop
• Dan Karmgard
• Randy Ruchti
• Mitch Wayne
• QuarkNet Staff• Pat Mooney
• CMS/DØ Staff• Barry Baumbaugh
• Jeff Marchant
• Mark Vigneault
• Administration• Jennifer Maddox
• Lead Teachers• LeRoy Castle, La Porte
• Dale Wiand, Adams
• Associate Teachers• 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
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Teachers’ Meeting
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QuarkNet Staff and Teachers
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High School Students
• 1999– D. Dickerson, Adams
– D. Saddawi, Adams
• 2000 (45 Applicants)– R. Bhavsar, Adams
– R. Bourke, LaLumiere
– M. Busk, Trinity
– Z. Clark, Jimtown
– P. Davenport, Trinity
– 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
High School Students
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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-1:00pmAfternoon Shift: 12:00pm-5:30pm
work at QuarkNet Lab or Nieuwland Science HallLuncheon interactive physics discussions and/or seminars: 12:00pm-1:00pm
At QuarkNet Labdiscussions: Karmgard, Mooney, Ruchtiseminars: 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:
E2 = p2c2 + m2c4
New Physics:Higgs BosonsSupersymmetryString TheoryHidden 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 LHCCERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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