1. U.S. Education and Outreach Activities
… a selection of initiative updates
Fermilab Visitor Initiative
EPO in the Pierre Auger Observatory, Mendoza Province, Argentina
The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) in Nebraska, and its
affiliates
CMS Ph.D. Thesis Awards Program
Gregory R. Snow
University of Nebraska
EPOG Meeting
23 April 2004

2. Fermilab Visitor Initiative Also NuMI/MINOS and MiniBoone
Labwide initiative to enhance
visitor experiences at Fermilab
Coordinated by Office of
Public Affairs
External architecture and
design firms enlisted to
facilitate common look to
several satellite Tour Areas
Multi-million $$ master plan
presented to Directorate
in July 2003
Prototype Tour Areas
constructed/assembled for
August 2003 Lepton-Photon
Conference at the lab
Feynman Computing
Center
CDF DØ
Wilson Hall
Lederman Education
Center + new
Visitor Center
Also NuMI/MINOS and MiniBoone

3. DZERO Tour Area Run I and II detector displays, posters
Live event displays from control room
Opening for Lepton-Photon Conference
Huge screen on shielding wall for projected images

4. Fermilab Visitor Initiative
Plans presented to Fermilab staff in open forum in April 2004

5. Fermilab Visitor Initiative

6. Fermilab Visitor Initiative

7. Fermilab Visitor Initiative Funding being sought from
external sources

8. The Pierre Auger Observatory
Northern Hemisphere:
Utah or Colorado, USA
Construction starts
in 2006
Southern Hemisphere:
Malargüe
Province of Mendoza
Argentina
Being constructed now
1600 detectors, 3000 km2 each site

9. The Pierre Auger Observatory
Status of Argentina site
150 out of 1600 surface detectors installed
2 out of 4 fluorescence telescope buildings
complete
Southern Hemisphere site complete 2005
Extremely impressive air showers have
been observed with partial array
Northern Hemisphere site
Construction to start in 2006
Likely site in Millard County, Utah
Setting in Argentina
6000 people in remote small town Malargüe
Auger collaboration presence quite noticeable
Positive impact desired at many levels
Education/outreach activities organized in a
distinct subtask led by G. Snow
Example: tanks carry names provided by
local school students

10. Visitor Center at Auger Office Building
Data Acquisition
Visitor Center
10  12 m2

11. Visitor Center at Auger Office Building
PC and multimedia
projection
Seats 60 people
Glass cabinet for
library and displays
Quarter-size FD mirror
set-up from Karlsruhe

12. Visitor Center at Auger Office Building
SD phototube display
CNEA telescope
Portable “beeping” Geiger counters
Notebook of PAO news articles

13. Visitor Statistics: 2002, 2003 2002 2342 total 2003 5278 total 400 200
January
December
2003
5278 total
800
400
1350
Visitors
January
2004

14. Argentine vs. Foreign Visitors
Argentina
Foreign

15. Visitor Center Web Site
Home page
News postings
Monthly news and events bulletin

16. Auger Observatory Becoming Part of Local Culture
Student writing project

17. Forum with Teachers and Students March 2004
120 participants
8 Auger collaborators
Discussion of future programs
requested by teachers and
students
Many good ideas: future course
topics, coordination with School
Board, science fair, …

18. Auger 5th Anniversary in Malargüe
March 17, 2004,
marks 5 years since
the groundbreaking
ceremony in 1999
Commemorative
poster produced to
present to city
officials, tourist
office, …

19. Eureka Science Park in Mendoza Parque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
Two years of planning and logistics led to the public inauguration of an
Auger Observatory exhibit on November 22, 2003
Outside: 2 Mexican SD tanks outdoors with explanatory signs
Inside: Italian FD prototype from Los Leones, posters, brochures, PC with
interactive activities, small displays

20. Eureka Science Museum in Mendoza
Mexican prototype
surface detector
tanks
Outfitted by UTN,
Mendoza, group

21. Eureka Science Museum Former Los Leones prototype mirrors
donated to Eureka by Torino group/INFN
Children are fascinated by it!

22. Eureka Science Museum Electronics displays PCs, brochures, posters
Beeping
Geiger
counter
display

23. Eureka Science Museum History of cosmic ray physics
in Argentina and Auger details

24. Auger Exhibit Inauguration
Governor elect of
Mendoza Province,
Ing. Julio Cobos
Press
coverage

25. Auger Exhibit Inaugural Speeches
Sra. Lilia Dubini, Eureka museum director
Dr. Alan Watson, Auger spokesperson
Dr. Johannes Blümer, Auger spokesperson
Prof. Thomas Lohse, Humbolt University, HESS experiment
Ing. Jorge Calzoni, Vice President CNEA
Dr. Roberto Semenzato, Italian Embassy
Sra. Maria Landa de Gonzales, Mexican Embassy in Mendoza
Sra. Kathleen Barmon, U.S. Embassy
Dr. Rolf Schumacher, German Ambassador to Argentina
Dr. Celso Jacque, Mayor of Malargüe, National Senator elect
Dr. Raúl Rodríguez, Mayor elect of Malargüe
Ing. Arturo Somoza, Vice Rector of National University of Cuyo
Ing. Julio Cobos, Governor elect of Mendoza Province

26. Press coverage, press releases
Mendoza
Eureka exhibit opening

27. Press coverage, press releases
Continuing effort to secure $500K funding for planetarium interior.
City of Malargüe committed to provide exterior building.

28. Press coverage, press releases
Rumbos Magazine (Los Andes)

29. Press coverage, press releases
December 2003
Louisiana State, Jim Matthews
January 2004
Professors, students part of
effort to learn about cosmic rays
The mention of Argentina conjures any
number of exotic or dramatic images ...
Eva Peron ... dancing the tango ...
gauchos riding the plains ...
falling high-energy cosmic rays …..

30. High School Based Cosmic Ray Research
Major Efforts in North America and Europe
North American sites
Nebraska’s CROP
Cosmic Ray Observatory Project
WALTA
ALTA
SALTA
CROP
SCROD
$1.34 Million U.S. NSF funding
(Education and HEP divisions)
24 high school teams have installed
detectors, GPS, data-acquisition
electronics, PC for data collection
Pierre Auger northern
hemisphere site in Utah/Colorado
CHICOS

31. The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project
A grid of cosmic ray research stations
expanding across the state
Coleridge
McPherson
Mullen
Loup
Spalding
250
miles
450 miles
CROP schools enlisted in

32. CROP data acquisition electronics card
Developed by Univ. Nebraska, Fermilab (Quarknet), Univ. Washington
Programmable
logic device
Time-to-digital
converters
To PC
serial port
GPS receiver
input
Four analog
PMT inputs
5 Volt
DC power
Event
counter
43 Mhz (24 nsec) clock interpolates
between 1 pps GPS ticks for trigger time
TDC’s give relative times of 4 inputs with
75 psec resolution
Discriminator
threshold
adjust

33. CROP data acquisition electronics card
Papers in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 51, No. 3, June 2004

34. GRID computing being applied to data analysis needs
Web site explains data analysis framework
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35. Web site explains data analysis framework
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36. Web site explains data analysis framework
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37. Schools can upload raw data files to server.

38. Some simple analysis tools in place.
Example: search for time coincidences among chosen
schools’ data files.

39. CMS Ph.D. Thesis Awards Program
Fashioned after Fermilab’s lab-wide Thesis Award program sponsored
by Universities Research Association.
CMS annual Thesis Award Program initiated in 1999.
Recognition of outstanding academic contributions to CMS experiment
by graduate students.
Rotating six-member committee judged nominated theses on basis of
Physics impact in CMS and HEP field in general
Originality
Clarity of writing
Award recipient receives an engraved plaque and expenses paid to
an international conference to present the thesis results.

40. CMS Ph.D. Thesis Award Recipients
2000: Dr. Pascal Vanlaer Université Libre de Bruxelles Title: Contribution to the study of the central tracking system of the CMS detector, at the future proton collider LHC
2001: Dr. Ivica Puljak Université Paris VI and Technical University of Split Title: CMS discovery potential for the Higgs boson in the
H  ZZ*  4e± decay channel. Contribution to the construction
of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter.
2002: Dr. Giacomo Bruno Università degli Studi di Pavia Title: The RPC Detectors and the Muon System for the
CMS Experiment at the LHC.
2003: Dr. Riccardo Ranieri
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Title: Trigger Selection of WH    b b with CMS
With Lorenzo Foà,
CMS Collaboration
Board Chair