Cosmic eLab Collaboration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator

Cosmic e-Lab Collaboration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Quark. Net overview • Quark. Net Cosmic Ray Detector assemble CRMD hardware & take data • Cosmic e-Lab exploration upload & analyze data

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Active Quark. Net Centers

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Cosmic Rays – – Sources Composition, energy spectrum Detection Current experiments • The Quark. Net Classroom Detector – Hardware overview – Classroom use – Experiments, measurements • Data Analysis – Upload, analyze data & save data products – Share results – Enter logbook notes

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Paradigm: a good way to learn science? --> participate in data-based science -ask cosmic ray questions -marshal a research plan -engage hardware and technology -analyze realistic, not simulated data -share results with collaboration

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays May 2008 • 419 teachers accounts • 835 student research groups • over 65, 000 analyses run • 314 detectors in high schools • 15275 data files • 192 posters

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Quark. Net creates a collaboration of users Teachers <---> Students Teachers <---> Mentor Scientists Detector Schools <---> Non-Detector Schools World-wide network: Students <--> Students

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Sources of Cosmic Rays – Supernova remnants – Active galaxies (? ) – Quasars (? ) – Gamma Ray Bursters (? )

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Cosmic rays at earth – primaries (protons, nuclei) – secondaries (pions) – decay products (muons, photons, electrons) 1 -2 per second

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Run: CR shower video if fast connection http: //astro. uchicago. edu/cosmus/projects/aires/protonshoweroverchicago. mpeg

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Wealth of open science questions • Students participate in active, big science • Quark. Net --> not prescriptive, not recipes • Provide resources and analysis tools • Trust the teacher to guide research

e-Labs BIG science: • Auger --> • • http: //www. auger. org MINOS Far Detector --> http: //farweb. minos-soudan. org/events/ CMS --> http: //cms. cern. ch/ --> Quark. Net Cosmic Studies: direct analog to detector based particle physics

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Teachers & students – assemble – calibrate – set-up & run

Overview: Cosmic Ray Muon Detector Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • The Quark. Net Classroom Detector Cosmic Ray Muon Detector (CRMD) – plastic scintillator – homegrown DAQ – GPS timing

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays CRMD Typical Quark. Net Detector Setup 1. Counters-scintillators, 2. photomultiplier tubes 3. (two shown) 2. Quark. Net DAQ board 3. 5 VDC adapter 4. GPS receiver 5. GPS extension cable 6. RS-232 cable (to link to computer serial port) 7. Optional RS-232 to USB adapter (to link to computer USB port instead of serial port) 8. Lemo or BNC signal cables 9. Daisy-chained power cables

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • DAQ Hardware measures – light pulse timing – ambient temperature – atmospheric pressure • Experiments include – Flux studies – Time correlation – Shielding – Particle speed – Particle lifetime – Altitude attenuation

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Types of counter configuration 1) array --> shower counters distributed 2) stacked --> flux counters spaced on common center • Determined by type of CR study • Student defined

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays NEXT SESSION: Breakout into small teams --> Assemble Cosmic Ray Muon Detectors 4 counters: one team each DAQ/GPS: one team Next: cosmic e-Lab and UPLOAD data

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Quark. Net cosmic e-Lab Teacher Accounts Email the following: • Name: • Account Name: • School: • City/Country: • Email: To: Bob Peterson --> rspete@fnal. gov

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Explore tonight Cosmic e-Lab portal: http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab -->LIBRARY-->STUDYGUIDE

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • There has to be an easier way. . . cosmic e-Lab <-- tomorrow

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

Cosmic e-Lab Exploration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • DAQ Hardware measures – light pulse timing – ambient temperature – atmospheric pressure • Experiments include – Flux studies – Time correlation – Shielding – Particle speed – Particle lifetime – Altitude attenuation

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Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • There has to be an easier way. . . --> Cosmic e-Lab Lower the threshold to analyzing real data

e-Labs But there are more e-Labs on the horizon…… • • Ligo -- weeks away CMS -- months away Atlas -- year away Other science with large data sets…. SDSS? Mars Rover? weather? ocean?

e-Labs Major strength of e-Labs…… • First time teachers and students --> GRID Large cluster of machines at Argonne Nat’l Lab GRID gateway at Univ of Chicago • e-Labs: same structure & format, “look/feel”

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic e-Lab portal: http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab Login Username: Password:

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab Workflow & Milestones

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Pause: live action demo Login Goto: REGISTRATION Add DAQ# UPLOAD data: follow me

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays ‘nother live action demo PERFORMANCE study What is this telling us? Why do this study?

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab Follow upper right: My Logbook

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays More live action --> Examples • Data Search • Shower Analysis • Flux Analysis

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http: //quarknet. fnal. gov/e-lab Reproduce analysis: --> click on plot --> run study again --> change parameters

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Team Task: a) Pose a simple CR research question b) Select small CR data set c) Run CR Analysis d) Track your progress using the LOGBOOK e) Write online Poster about study with plot f) Share Tutorial about the QN portal Tutorial Guiding Questions: • How did you use the portal? • How would you use the CR e-Lab in your classroom? • How do you think students will use self-guided research? • What makes self-guided research beneficial? • Highlight one interesting feature you found in the QN e-Lab.