1. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Data Projects Thomas Jordan FNAL jordant@fnal.gov

2. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting NSF ESIE Proposal:... To facilitate classroom change, we will provide access to a wide variety of online instructional resources including raw datasets and primary sources, and manipulative,interactive and physical materials.... August, 1998 Wesley Smith, University of Wisconsin, CMS TrDAS:... There should be a trigger dedicated to QuarkNet....

3. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting... Raw Datasets... We feel that this will be iterative and have made two first-order attempts to prepare for “live” data: Run II website Online cosmic ray detector

4. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting Run II Website:

5. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting Run II Website: Students are “particle detectives” searching for Higgs in the: channel. IF YOU HAVE NEW INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS PARTICLE, PLEASE CONTACT THE NEAREST ACCELERATOR LABORATORY OR PHYSICS DEPARTMENT.

6. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting Run II Website: They use three types of data.... Plots from the experimentsExcel spreadsheetsStudent generated plots

7. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting Run II Website:... and make cuts on b lifetime & W mass, as well as generate di-jet mass plots. Thanks to John Conway (Rutgers, CDF Higgs group) for the Monte Carlo Higgs and background data. Also to William Wester (FNAL, CDF) for the data for Z and W reconstruction.

8. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting Online Cosmic Ray Detector:

9. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting An array of three scintillating plastic counters A dedicated DAQ reads out the PMTs, discriminates the signals and performs all of the trigger logic. Two triggers: >1-fold coincidence, decay candidates A serial connection ports trigger data to an Apple machine in my office which cleans and writes the data to AFS space (QNet webserver). Online Cosmic Ray Detector:

10. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 0001545D510301C2 00008BBC51010006 001B5FD0510100C2 08CF5AC155020004 04674DAF15 0A76588913 0479AA8615 0A8D50B415 35C5203555020004 0E713BBC15 0F6DC58C55020003 0B7D775215 0FA58EEF55040003 3D24BE8755020004 057AFC6915 0B2B70B115 18AAB1CD55040004 1CAFC45255020004 00D530B915 04DB3F5215 1487F7C955010004 098088F555010004 343790A855020004 08AF9AAE15 02F8956F55040003 0A468B8055020003 1ECFB4C515 455AC62854020003 0847885215 106854F115 1186D09515 4217850155040003 4B59C7A455020002 144ABE0455010004 07EB85B255010003 04BF643915 155B860555040004 19D8B40A15 08D2E61315 04D70BED55020004 028F973415 0A698FCC15 00A03EC015 1898339815 1243871815 0BA4DC0215 091303A615 4118EFAF15 1C41BF6255040002 1E8D2FA256020005 0D499D4315 1A9E124615 08D1C16B15 142F3E6E15 00CEAADD13 0C1E6AAD15 1886B7E255020004 0781D20755040002 Data are written in 24-hour blocks—each block starts at noon Greenwich time, the beginning of a new Julian day. At 12.00 GMT, my computer: Stops the current data run. Starts a new data run. Cleans up the data from the previous day: Makes a backup of the original, converts from hex to decimal, and writes events to file: one for each trigger. Advisory Board Meeting Online Cosmic Ray Detector:

11. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting Online Cosmic Ray Detector: Students can use the data to study flux as well as events that satisfy the decay trigger. The plot shows decay candidates from the middle counter during the first several weeks of running.

12. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting NSF ESIE Proposal:... To facilitate classroom change, we will provide access to a wide variety of online instructional resources including raw datasets and primary sources, and manipulative, interactive and physical materials.... August, 1998

13. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting Manipulative, Interactive and Physical Materials: We have ~50 of these cosmic ray detectors in QuarkNet classrooms and will soon have >100.

14. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting Who Uses These Materials? Students & Teachers in QuarkNet classrooms - Jason Fox Teachers - Bill Lamb and Jeff Rylander University Faculty - Mike Strauss and Darin Acosta QuarkNet Nodes - Everyone @ UIC node has a detector Unfortunately, we have no hard data to answer the question, only anecdotes.

15. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002 Advisory Board Meeting Next Steps: Set up and test pilots, make edits, broaden audience. Finish current batch of detectors. Investigate the value-added of the classroom detectors. If that investigation is favorable, find a way to make more. T. Jordan, Advisory Board Meeting - November 2002