1. International Masterclasses
WG update
International Masterclasses
Uta Bilow, Ken Cecire
5th IPPOG meeting – , Fermilab

2. International Masterclasses 2013
New countries:
Romania Turkey
Cyprus Palestine
Egypt Australia
 37 countries!

3. Statistics 25.2. – 22.3.2013 (22 days) 161 MCs (Fermilab-based: 29)
ALICE: 10
ATLAS W: 55
ATLAS Z: 58 (12)
CMS: 38 (17)
37 VCs with CERN (12)
130 institutes registered (29)
+ local Masterclasses, teachers´ days
~ 10 % growth for 2013
Further growth  extended period
Investigate with countries preferred period

4. Registration / Scheduling
Quite demanding with 130 institutes and 5 measurements
New procedure via doodle
Predefined slots, each limited to 5 participants
procedure for registration will be announced beforehand
Separate doodles for each measurement (clearly structured)
Special procedure might be necessary for measurements with few institutes

5. Measurements All measurements and datasets available on webpage
ATLAS paths: Translations by IPPOG from Nov on
Additional material available on webpage:
Guides for Tutors
more supporting material
NEW: Question time via Vidyo (1 h each measurement), well received
Information for moderators (manual and twiki)
NEW: ISO file replacing DVD

6. Video Conferences CERN-based:
Test period 4.2. – (Vidyo support team)
86 institutes tested (14 new institutes)
WG VC (Kate, Michael, Laurenz†, Uta), preparing:
Manuals for VC for local organisers
Manual and twiki for moderators
Training for mod. at CERN 18.2.
Rooms (teachers´ lab, CMS centre)
33 Moderators!
Reward: Free Polar from the CERN shop (thanks to Maureen and Rolf!)
Evaluation in progress, very positive feedback so far
Vidyo worked well
Institutes are clearly better trained in 2013
Still lacking: chat, visual indication of speaker
Fermilab-based:
Crew of 3-4:
Facilitator
Moderator (FNAL/ANL)
Tech
(Featured scientist)
Icebreaker questions
No quiz
Vidyo worked well.
No “bad” videoconferences

7. External Communication / Media
Press release English/German (incl. section for local activities)
Distributed via institutes, DESY, interactions.org, …
For media coverage see „In the media“ webpage
Facebook > 1000 likes, few posts
Encourage students to use it more? How?

8. Summary Tools improved, better combination, no last-minute aid
Very positive feedback, esp. from newcomers
„smooth as silk“, „great“, „excellent“
„very nice opportunity to share our science with young students and it also produces some common goals for our team of researchers“
Most feedback on VC: too long / too short, earlier / later

9. Organisation Funding/Support
Central organisation at TU Dresden
Michael Kobel, Uta Bilow, student assistant
Coordination Fermilab-based MCs
Ken Cecire
WG Video conference
Kate Shaw, Michael Hauschild, Laurenz Widhalm†, Uta Bilow
SG (Steering group)
Farid Ould-Saada, Michael Kobel, Ken Cecire, Pete Watkins, Despina Hatzifotiadou, Yiota Foka, Ralf Averbeck, Uta Bilow
Acknowledge SG and WG VC (role, members) on webpage
Coordination
Uta: from 2013 on funded by CERN (for 3 years)
Ken: QuarkNet
Student assistants: TU Dresden
Funding from EPS HEPP Division
in kind contributions (CERN, Fermilab, Vidyo team, moderators, …)

10. ATLAS W Measurement Feedback: Decision tree helpful
New online spreadsheet had some problems but improving
Need W+/W- explanation
WW hard to explain without clear result – statistics
Web pages a little awkward for institutes analyzing more than on data set

11. ATLAS Z measurement Worked well “out of the box” Late changes
Improve documentation and measurements
Will discuss web-based version of HYPATIA with Christine
Need to streamline method of changing website

12. CMS W/Z measurement New: H4l candidates one spreadsheet
Smooth data transfer; moderator job simpler
Expressions of satisfaction with improvement
Interference and EditGrid glitches

13. ALICE Strange Particle Search
ALICE Masterclass growing
Two parts
Invariant mass histograms
Particle yields
Strangeness enhancement
Shift toward PbPb collisions
Both visual and large statistics analysis
Better idea of what analysis is like
Students understood not all the physics but what a physicist is
More interesting than last year

14. ALICE RAA Measurement
Compare unidentified charged particle momentum spectra in pp and Pb-Pb collisions
Visual analysis
Not too difficult
Large scale analysis
Challenging
Student “code shock”
To do:
Simplify large scale analysis
Improve documentation

15. TOTEM proposed measurement
“Event Display”
For 2013 not yet in time with the “official”.
However, starting an “internal-pilot” program.
The analysis code is ready and very easy to use.
Issues remain for design

16. LHCb proposed measurement
Measure lifetime of D0
Mass distribution fit
Find background
Measure lifetime
Developed GUI – needs to be simplified
Hope for approval this year – tests encouraging 16

17. World Boson Day (working title)
One 24 hr period
Moderators “on shift” at CERN and Fermilab
Institutes, including (especially?) schools connect at good times for them.
Involve new students/teachers/groups plus previous institutes
What and how?
Measurement? No measurement? Central activity?
May 2013….or wait a year?
Still brainstorming

18. Mandate Steering Group
Document defining mandate and duties of the group
Draft was prepared and discussed
Basic idea: SG = collaborating to keep the quality of the program
Members: Head, Coordination, representatives from measurements, other consultants ensuring adequate knowledge

19. Approval of Measurements for IMC
Need for a defined procedure to smoothly include new or modified measurements
Draft was prepared and discussed
Preliminary remarks on IMC
Guidelines, e.g.:
include event displays
Adapt tools and programs to high-school students
Real data from experiments
Result leads to insight, answer physics questions
Procedure, e.g.:
mandatory pilot tests
evaluation
clear deadlines