5th International Masterclasses „Hands on Particle

5th International Masterclasses „Hands on Particle

EPPOG International Masterclasses
“Hands on Particle Physics“
www.physicsmasterclasses.org
Plenary ECFA meeting, CERN, 26.11.2009
Michael Kobel, TU Dresden
The masterclass idea
Basic idea from UK
Students (16-19 year-olds) spend 1 day at research institute
Listen to scientists‘ introduction to particle physics
Work like real scientists: measurements with particle physics data
Why Masterclasses?
Make modern particle physics data available to students
Let students explore fundamental forces and building blocks of nature
Demonstrate the scientific research process
Stimulate interest in science
The EPPOG international masterclass idea
Create an international collaboration of students
Join institutes worldwide with 300-400 students per day
Since 2005: all w/in 3 weeks each year
Over 80 institutes from 23 countries taking part
Over 6000 students participating
5-6 masterclasses join in video conference at the end of the day
Discuss results and differences
Combine results (better accuracy)
Quiz and prizes
Questions to scientists
schedule, data, background material,
description of all participating institutes:
www.physicsmasterclasses.org
Participation EPPOG international masterclasses
25
120
20
100
80
15
60
10
40
5
20
0
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2005
Countries
2006
2007
2008
2009
Institutes
6000
US
(Quarknet)
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
Brazil
2005
South Africa
2006
2007
2008
Participants
2009
Examples: Italy, Germany
Hamburg
Berlin
Dortmund
Wuppertal
Göttingen
Dresden
Siegen
Aachen
Bonn
Würzburg
Mainz
Erlangen
Heidelberg
Tübingen
Freiburg
2009: 14 institutes
2010: +2 institutes
München
Agenda of the day
Lectures
Standard model,
Accelerators,
Detectors
institute´s activities,
cosmology etc.
Lunch with physics
students and tutors
Measurements
Video conference
Lectures
Measurements
Collecting results
Local analysis
Final video conference: combination of results
Quiz with the CERN moderators
Prizes
funded
by
CERN
Masterclass CD-rom
10 web-based systems with material in 17 languages
online at http://www.physicsmasterclasses.org  physics
offline on masterclass CDrom (ca. 7000 copies / year)
offered to all participants and their teachers
useful outreach to public and schools
•What are the fundamental building blocks of matter?
•How can I identify them?
•Which forces hold them together?
•How do these forces work?
•How far have forces and matter been understood?
Find the answers to these and other questions by browsing, reading, and working
through the Web systems collected on this CDrom in 16 languages. Most of the
material contains interactive elements, some even real particle physics events for
making your own measurements.
System requirements: Web Browser, Java, Shockwave and Media Player
•Hands-On-CERN (Ca, Cz, De, Dk, En, Fr, Ga, Gr, Hu, It, No, Pt, Sk,Sp,Sv)
Erik Johansson et al., Stockholm
Hands on
Particle Physics
Interactive educational material on
Particle Physics in 17 languages
•A Keyhole To The Birth Of Time (En, It, Pl, Sp)
James Gillies, Richard Jacobsson, et al CERN
•Identifying Particles (En, De, Gr, It, Sk)
Terry Wyatt, Univ Manchester
•BaBar Particle Physics Teaching Package (En)
Heather Lang, David Kirk, Univ Manchester (George Lafferty)
•Lancaster Particle Physics Package (En)
F. Foster et al., Lancaster Univ (Andre Sopczak)
•KworkQuark (De)
DESY (Dirk Rathje, Marc Hermann)
•Teilchentour I: Reise durch die Welt der Teilchen (De)
Dagmar Schmitz, Univ Bonn (Michael Kobel)
•Teilchentour II: Anwendungen in Kosmologie u. Medizin (De)
Alexandra Petri, Univ Bonn (Michael Kobel)
•Grundlagen der Teilchenphysik (De)
German Hacker, Univ Erlangen
•Le Monde des Particules (Fr)
Gwendoline de Hemptinne, Guillaume Leibenguth, Damien Bertrand, Univ Louvain
The material on this CDrom was
collected and translated by the
European Particle Physics Outreach
Group EPPOG for the yearly
Particle Physics Masterclasses
http://wyp.teilchenphysik.org
Measurements, local results
Z0
Happily confirm
LEP results published in:
Physics Report, May 2006
New activity: upgrade for LHC

Didactical and technical concept
 Didactics Ph.D. thesis Konrad Jende @ CERN
 close cooperation with CERN teachers program
 and EPPOG, Quarknet, Netzwerk Teilchenwelt

Challenges:
 Flexible for whatever the LHC will discover
 Plug & play for all institutes
 At least ATLAS and CMS, others possible
 First test package in summer 2010, beta version for Masterclasses 2011

Physics task
 So far LEP:
 lepton universality and 3 colors in Z-decays
 optional: αs from counting jets, WW at LEP2
 LHC: find W (real), Z (real), H (simulated!), …(?)

Existing ATLAS programs for LHC-exercises
in EC-project „Learning with ATLAS @CERN“
 Minerva (UK)
 Hypatia (Greece)
 Amelia (US)
Refereed evaluation
in Physics Education 42 (2007) 636-644
severity: just right
success independent of a-priori knowledge and gender
Most important correlation
Understanding the scientific research process
generates interest in (especially modern) physics
Funding of International Masterclasses
Central Organisation
Coordinator (M.K.): EPPOG
Project Manager: Helmholtz Alliance Germany (since mid 2008)
In-Kind
Personal: EPPOG, EVO-team, local institutes
Prizes: CERN
CDs, Brochures: EPS + national resources
Project for LHC-Upgrade
“Awareness of CERN” initiative: German BMBF
Didactic Ph.D. student: Wolfgang-Gentner program @ CERN
technical support and trials: LHC communication project
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