QuarkNet Beyond the First Year What happens next? What?!! A 3-week workshop! My experience at Notre Dame QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

What happens next? QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

You’ve mentored 2 high school physics teachers. You’ve spent 7 weeks teaching new researchers. You’ve answered a zillion questions about physics, particle physics and “classroom transfer.” You’ve learned a bit about how the “usual” high school physics class is taught. That wasn’t so bad . . . QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

Now you get to: Recruit 10 more teachers Plan and implement a 3-week workshop Find speakers Figure out what “classroom transfer” means Reserve rooms, labs Pay 10 more teachers Schedule activities for 3 weeks Keep up with 12 total teachers through the academic year QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

What?!! A 3-week workshop! QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

Lead teachers and mentors plan Associate Teacher Institute together. ATI is parallel to the Lead Teacher Institute but sensitive to local teachers’ needs. Approximately 10 associate teachers join the Center. Largest group of teachers added to QuarkNet Center. QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

Associate Teacher Institute 10 Associate Teachers 2 Mentors 2 Lead Teachers Associate Teacher Institute QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

The ATI program is research-based; for example, experimenting with cosmic ray detectors. Some groups complete detectors and then use them in their classrooms. QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

Each center hosts a two to three week Associate Teacher Institute (100 hours minimum) Generally, institutes meet for three 5-day weeks or two 5-day weeks with plans to meet on five Saturdays (or holidays) during the academic year. QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

My Experience at Notre Dame QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

Vision A community of researchers including high school teachers, faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students and high school students. QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

Recruiting Meeting, Fall 1999 QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

Fermilab QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

The e- was discovered by Thompson ~ 1900 The e- was discovered by Thompson ~ 1900. The nucleus was discovered by Rutherford in ~ 1920. The e+, the first antiparticle, was found in ~ 1930. The m , indicating a second “generation”, was discovered in ~ 1936. There was an explosion of baryons and mesons discovered in the 1950s and 1960s. They were classified in a "periodic table" using the SU(3) symmetry group, whose physical realization was point-like, strongly-interacting, fractionally-charged "quarks." Direct evidence for quarks and gluons came in the early 1970s. The exposition of the 3 generations of quarks and leptons is only just, in 1996, completed. In the mid 1980s, the unification of the weak and electromagnetic force was confirmed by the W and Z discoveries. The LHC, starting in 2005, 2006, 2007?, 2008? will be THE tool to explore the origin of the breaking of the electroweak symmetry (Higgs field?) and the origin of mass itself. QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

E2 = p2c2 + m2c4 New Physics: Higgs Bosons Supersymmetry String Theory A key equation: E2 = p2c2 + m2c4 New Physics: Higgs Bosons Supersymmetry String Theory Hidden Dimensions looking for particles based on energy, momentum and mass QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

The D detector has 3 main detector systems; ionization tracking, liquid argon calorimetry ( EM , e , and HAD , jets), magnetized steel + ionization tracker and muon detection/identification. This event has jets, a muon, an electron and missing energy , n. QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

SM Fundamental Particle Appears As   (ECAL shower, no track) e e (ECAL shower, with track)   (ionization only) g Jet in ECAL+ HCAL q = u, d, s Jet (narrow) in ECAL+HCAL q = c, b Jet (narrow) + Decay Vertex t --> W +b W + b e Et missing in ECAL+HCAL -->l +  +l Et missing + charged lepton W --> l + l Et missing + charged lepton, Et~M/2 Z --> l+ + l- charged lepton pair --> l + l Et missing in ECAL+HCAL QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 Research next QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 choosing students QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

QuarkNet After the First Year Things change – 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. Research and classroom become foci Communication leads to teachers becoming members of the particle physics community Collaboration formed – mentor(s)-teacher(s) QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003 B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member