Boston Area Quarknet Workshop – August 5-9, 2002
at Roxbury Latin School
Ulrich Heintz (Boston U.), Darien Wood (Northeastern U.), Rick Dower (Roxbury Latin School)
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| Mon am | Self-introductions of participants and directors | |
| Introduction to particle physics: | ||
| History of ideas and discoveries to 1932 | Rick Dower | |
| History of ideas and discoveries 1932 to present | Ulrich Heintz | |
| How do we know what we know? – detectors | Darien Wood | |
| Mon pm | Demonstrate Randy Ruchti’s cosmic ray detector | |
| Video clip of scintillator paddle cosmic ray detector | ||
| Show “Time dilation – an experiment with mu-mesons” (note availability with Physics2000 CD) | ||
| Tue am | Relativity review | Rick Dower |
| Show “The ultimate speed” video | ||
| Demonstrate curvature of Sr 90 beta particles in a magnetic field with Geiger counter detector. | ||
| Tue pm | Work through “p - m - e experiment” - measure bubble chamber tracks and compute masses for muon and pion | |
| Investigate CD from James Gillies at CERN – “Particle Physics: A Keyhole to the Birth of Time”. Distribute CDs to participants. | ||
| Show “Positron – electron annihilation” video. | ||
| Wed am | Particle physics at Fermilab Tevatron | Darien Wood |
| Wed pm | Work through Project Physics bubble chamber exercises (one for each pair of participants). Pairs report results to group. | |
| Thu am | Four veterans of previous QuarkNet workshops present ways in which they have altered their teaching to incorporate particle physics topics or perspectives. | |
| Thu pm | “OnScreen Particle Physics” - determine mass of unknown particles; | |
| Explore particle physics sites on World Wide Web. | ||
| Fri am | Neutrino experiments and recent results | Ulrich Heintz |
| More World Wide Web exploration | ||
| Fri pm | Participants present favorite particle physics web sites | |
| Discuss ways of continuing this group and set follow up meeting for the fall | ||
| Participants fill out workshop evaluations. | ||
