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2. ATLAS Education and Outreach
Michael Barnett
LBNL
October 2008 2 2

3. Where goes outreach now?
September 10 
A fantastic success!
September 19 
Where goes outreach now? 3 3

4. Newly Revised Homepage

5. Hits on ATLAS Website
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6. Hits on ATLAS Website Hits for weeks starting… 10 Aug. 24 Aug. 31 Aug
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7. News Page under Revision

8. Readers ask us about safety

9. Blogs

10. Public Talks

11. Images – Ease of Use

12. Event Images

13. ATLAS Store

14. ATLAS Pop-up Book
In progress, a book with a world-class pop-up book artist.
It should be done before LHC runs. It covers ATLAS, the Big Bang and some physics.

15. Special Section for Students

16. Films Made by Students in April

17. ATLAS Multimedia

18. ATLAS on YouTube YouTube.com/TheATLASExperiment
ATLAS has “Director” status
20 videos.
Top one has 87,000 viewings.
Total is 370,000 viewings.

21. Viewings of ATLAS videos
Episode I:
Episode II:
The ATLAS movie:
s_of_the_universe_1/
A quick search yielded:
34k & 21k & 26k hits 21 21

22. Four Million Viewings

23. Episodes (Animations)
Translations into French, German, and Italian are in progress or completed for Episodes 1 and 2.
Are or will be on our website.
A DVD with multiple languages will be produced.

24. Close Encounters with the Universe
The Physics of ATLAS and CMS (animated film)
Project is funded and is being prepared for development
An outline exists:
From the Big Bang to Dark Matter, Extra Dimensions,
Higgs, Microscopic Black Holes, New Forces, etc.
A team of producers and advisors has been formed:
includes E. Johansson, P. Watkins, J. Pequenao, M. Barnett,
R. Ruchti, M. Bardeen.
Deadline for completion: ~February 2009 24 24

25. Close Encounters with the Universe Pixar is playing an advisory role.25 25

26. Student Event Analyses
Four variations on having high school students analyze ATLAS events
Lancaster (V. Kartvelishvili) 
HYPATIA (C. Kourkoumelis, Athens) 
RAL (M. Wielers) 
AMELIA (M. Barnett, LBNL) 
Many tested at Masterclasses 26 26

27. HYbrid Pupil’s Analysis Tool for Interactions in ATLAS
C.Kourkoumelis (UoA)
D.Fassouliotis “
D.Vudragovic (Belgrade)
S.Vourakis (UoA )
And linked from the ATLAS outreach page
(2GR,2SE,FI,AT,DE,GB) was submitted
An EU proposal with 9 institutions
and went through the first stage approval

28. Most recent full Version of HYPATIA

29. MASTERCLASS MARCH 2008 @ UoA

30. Lancaster Particle Physics Package
Lancaster University, UK 30 30

31. Lancaster Particle Physics Package31 31

32. RAL ATLAS Exercise Based on: Electron, muon and jet identification
Classification of events into the categories We, W, Zee, Z, background from jet production
Search for H4l (one event in the complete dataset)
Calculate ratio We/W, Zee/Z, W/Z
Each group analyses (at least) 20 events via Atlantis

33. RAL ATLAS Exercise Put statistics together and measure ratio
We/W, Zee/Z, Z/W
The ratio We/W,
Zee/Z was typically correct
W/Z was always too low
(~4-5 rather than 10)
Number of wrongly classified events
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34. Student Event Analysis (AMELIA)
Interactive event analysis for students and public
Jet
ATLAS Multimedia Educational Lab for Interactive Analysis mu mu
Jet

35. ATLAS Schedule?

36. Sept. 10
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37. Sept. 10 Coverage

38. Sept. 10 Coverage

39. Sept. 10 Coverage

40. Sept. 10 Coverage

41. If time allows…

42. Website Challenged People to Photoshop this Image

43. Star Trek: To boldly go where no experiment has gone before

44. Classical view: The Standard Model

45. The LHC Tube: Mind the Gap

46. The Wizard of Oz: Follow the Yellow Brick Road

47. The End