Education and Outreach QuarkNet

Randy Ruchti

USCMS Education Coordinator

USCMS Annual Meeting, Florida State University

10-11 May 2002

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• Education and Outreach Booklet for all of HEP

• Sessions on Education and Outreach at DPF2002

• QuarkNet Project, now in its fourth year

• REU/RET at CERN (Northeastern/Michigan)

• USCMS Fellows

• Visitor Gallery at SX5

• New Directions

E and O Activities

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• 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:

– M. Bardeen (Fermilab Education Office) – R. M. Barnett (LBNL, Atlas Education Coordinator)– O. Keith Baker (Hampton Univ)– R. Ruchti (Notre Dame, USCMS Education Coordinator)

QuarkNet

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Legend

Red – 4rd year

Green – 3nd year

Purple – 2nd year

Blue – 1st year

QuarkNet Center Locations

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10 Associate Teachers

QuarkNet Organizational Structure

4 PI’sO. K. Baker M. BardeenM. Barnett R. Ruchti

5 QuarkNet StaffB. Beiersdorf K. CecireA. Erzberger T. Jordan

P. Mooney

Center 1

Center 3

Typical Center

Center 58

Center 59

Center 60

Center 2 --------------------

2 Mentors 2 Lead Teachers

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Active QuarkNet Centers

1999 CentersBoston Univ.FermilabFlorida State Univ.Indiana Univ.Iowa State Univ.Langston Univ.Northeastern Univ.Univ. of Notre DameSUNY Stony BrookUniv. of IowaUniv. of California at Santa CruzUniv. of OklahomaUniv. of RochesterUniv. of Texas at Arlington

2000 CentersBrookhaven Nat’l Lab.Columbia Univ./Nevis LabsHampton Univ.Michigan State Univ.Southern Methodist Univ.SUNY AlbanyUniv. of California at IrvineUniv. of California at RiversideUniv. of ChicagoUniv. of FloridaUniv. of Illinois – ChicagoUniv. of PennsylvaniaUniv. of Washington

2001 CentersArgonne Nat’l Lab.Florida Institute of Tech.Iowa State Univ.Lawrence Berkeley Nat’l LabRutgers Univ.Texas Tech Univ.Univ. of IowaUniv. of KansasUniv. of Mississippi

Affiliations:

CMS, ATLAS, D0, CDF

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New QuarkNet Centers for 2002

2002 Center CandidatesUniv. of CincinnatiDuke Univ.Johns Hopkins Univ.Univ. of Maryland Univ. of MinnesotaUniv. of Northern IllinoisUniv. of OregonUniv. of PittsburghUniv. of South CarolinaSLACStanford Univ.Vanderbilt Univ.

Affiliations:

CMS, ATLAS, DØ, CDF

BaBar

Fixed Target

Non-accelerator

Astrophysics

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http://www.nd.edu/~quarknet

http://quarknet.fnal.gov/

QuarkNet Websites

QuarkNet Homepage

Notre Dame QuarkNet Center

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• REU– Research Experiences for

Undergraduates

– Funded by NSF• US programs

National– Any physics area

• US program at CERN Northeastern Univ.

– HEP specific

• US program at CERN

Univ. of Michigan– HEP specific

• RET– Research Experiences for

Teachers– Funded by NSF

• US programs– Any physics area

• US program at CERNNortheastern Univ.

– HEP specific

• REHS– Research Experiences for HS

Students• Pilot program at Notre Dame• Support from D0, CMS, ND

– Initially HEP specific– Intend any physics area

REU, RET, REHS

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USCMS Fellows

• Follow on to the first year of QuarkNet to give HS teachers an in-depth 8-week summer research experience.

• Typically several teachers supported for the summer.

• Piloted in previous summers.

• This year 4 Fellowships– TTU

– FIT

– Iowa

– OleMiss

• It would be good to expand this to 6 in future years.

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Visitor Gallery at SX5

• Effort led by Dave Barney.

• One of the most popular spots on the CERN laboratory tour for visitors.

• A mezzanine location at the assembly hall.

• Currently under development.

• We have provided a cosmic ray detector. Should have additional video camera plus display screen.

• Seeking additional detector items for display:– Megatile with WLS fibers.

– Optical decoder unit.

– Other detector components.

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New Directions

• Update USCMS Website education items.– Post talks – with sort at various levels.

• Develop a USCMS Brochure.

• Issues at CERN Project Office for USCMS.

• ………New ideas and suggestions welcome