News on Outreach Activities in ALICE Yiota Foka

News on Outreach Activities in ALICE Yiota Foka for the ALICE collaboration 13 th Outreach Meeting Vienna, 10 October 2003

Input Needed Participation to Master Classes for the World Year of Physics 2005 Preparation for CERN Open Day next October Memo of EPOG to funding agencies See agenda of CERN EPOG meeting, April 2003 http: //agenda. cern. ch/age? a 03574

European Outreach Group The aim of the European Outreach Group is to make best use of resources for outreach activities in Europe. Members: national delegates (~20 countries), CERN, DESY, teachers… now Americans joining It meets two times per year, one of those at CERN. Menu for the Vienna meeting - to define receivers for Memo to Funding Bodies and Ministers of Science in Europe to promote professional science outreach activities. - to define institutes to be financed for setting up “master classes” EPOG was approached by funding agencies to prepare proposals for 2004 -2005 festivities (Year of Physics and CERN Open Day)

Master Classes M. Kobel (German delegate) presented master-classes and experience from UK and Germany; interesting results from evaluation statistics See http: //agenda. cern. ch/age? a 03574 2 nd day, Master Classes, M. Kobel and //www. europhysicsnews. com/full/21/article 7/articl 7. html

CERN Open Day and ALICE P. Catapano (CERN) presented the organization put in place to prepare the 50 year CERN festivity ‘how has our vision of the universe changed the last 50 years’ • 19. 10. 2004 : VIPS day (possibly in GLOBE from Swiss expo) lunch, Keynote, DATA GRID Challenge concert • 16 -17. 10 04 : Open Weekend • publications, CORE event (travelling exposition) • stamps, euro-coins in member states • parallel activities in member states, live webcast • travelling exposition http: //agenda. cern. ch/age? a 03574 1 st day, Events, P. Catapano ALICE has to be ready in a year

Outreach material and activities New ALICE web page for public; in progress http: //alice. web. cern. ch/Alice. New/public/ Old ALICE outreach web page still in use http: //alice-outreach. web. cern. ch/ALICE-outreach/ Exposition at Point 2, TPC Field Cage New ALICE model at Point 2 New ALICE leaflets, Folders for. VIPS, more Posters Old Brochures in several languages Posters start being translated in French and Spanish Visits and events First ALICE Industrial Award New Articles in CERN bulletin, courier and international press New Photos, event displays at Photo. Data. Base ALICE animations, videos, films

http: //alice-outreach. web. cern. ch/ALICE-outreach/

‘old’ ALICE Brochure versions available - English - French - German - Italian - Swedish - Greek also in the new CERN template

‘new’ ALICE Brochure much simpler, in view of CERN Open Day versions available - English - French Being printed

Used as Physics Poster

‘new’ ALICE VIP Folder ALICE event display used for T-shirts and photos from the new brochure With collection of outreach material and possibly silver bookmark with the ALICE Logo

some VIP’s visits Walter Henning, director of GSI, the German heavy-ion research centre at Darmstadt, on 14 April. …. and school children Germans and Americans with wine award to guides Gordan Markotic, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations and other international organisations in Geneva, Professor Gvozden Flego, Minister of Science and Technology, Republic of Croatia, on 23 September.

ALICE model at Building 40 made at VECC Calcutta, India

2 nd ALICE model at Point 2 made at VECC Calcutta, India

Work in progress and To. Do Point 2 visits • several posters at the ‘entrance wall’ • photos from the calendar in the counting room and panels outside the small elevator • re-use of L 3 expo platform and panels • duplication of Bat. 40 expo and expansion - 2 nd ALICE model (VECC , Calcutta and C. Decosse) - detector expo models

TPC Field Cage at Point 2 • exposition model of chamber from GSI (P. Steltzer et al) • guide on call (T. Meyer booked) • explanatory photos, eng. Plans, poster • vitrine and real pieces to help explanations ==> ready for the 14 th April visit by W. Henning Thanks to Tom, Martin, Tony. . . ==> filmed by C. Chimal ==> photographed by P. Ginter

Arrival of Dipole Magnet Coils Covered by CERN video and photo service and local press Each coil is 5 m long, 6 m wide, and more than 3 m high, weights more than 20 t Made by Sigmaphi, Vannes (Bretagne)

First ALICE Award to Industry ALICE presents its first award to Industry. On 19 June, a French company received the first ALICE award to industry. ST Technologies has provided ALICE with a key device for the design of a very sophisticated chip for the readout of the ALICE Time Projection Chamber.

…via the outreach web page: ALICE Articles and News Articles in CERN Bulletin, Courrier, international press ALTRO chip STM press release

CERN Courier Special HIF ALICE prepares for still higher energies. Collisions of lead ions at the LHC will take heavy-ion physics into a new high-energy regime. Also ALICE Industrial Award

Next CERN Courier issue Article by Maurice Jacob training of ALICE young people

Photo Data Base

…. and more Photos Photographer P. Gienter visited CERN beginning of August and took photos of the ALICE TPC Field Cage and Magnet (Chinese technicians) Those pictures are not Ginter’s hopefully they will become part of a photostory for GEO-like magasins

ALICE gadgets • cups • pens • calendar • Christmas card New T-shirts Calendar for 2004 in preparation

…via the outreach web page: useful links • simulated events and geometry of detectors • heavy-ion collisions material in preparation in http: //alice. web. cern/Alice/outreach/GREEKTV. html

Animations and Videos CERN Video News http: //webcast. cern. ch/cds/videos/CERN-VIDEOCLIP-2003 -011. ram TPC Field Cage animation can be used for virtual reality show New Pb. Pb collision at LHC energy by URQMD Transport of tracks through the experiment Cosmic ray animation

TPC Field Cage animation

Pb. Pb collisions for LHC energy, ECM = 5. 5 Te. V/nucleon URQMD model, simulation by Weber

The ALICE Collaboration on time for the CERN open day !! 1000 members 77 institutions 28 countries C. Decosse and Y. Schutz; new Brochure C. Decosse, P. Gienter and visits P. Buncic et. al TPC animation A. Gheata, geometrical modeler and transport F. Telles et al, cosmic ray animations Tatiana, Karel’s daugther Photo. Data. Base Sasha, Yves son; web pages Outreach contact persons in each project

Aknowledgements to CERN’s Press Office Photo Service Video Service Print Shop Reception and in particular Christine Vanoli design/ETT

New T-shirts – Coffee mugs