1. Cosmic Ray e-Lab Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

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

3. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Workshop Objectives: Assemble CRMD: plateau, geometry, data-take Record progress: LogBook Design e-Lab investigation: data, tools, plots Write poster, present results Share “Implementation Plan” and strategy

4. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Active QuarkNet Centers

5. Cosmic Rays –Sources –Composition, energy spectrum –Detection –Current experiments The QuarkNet 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

6. 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

7. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab stats: June 2009 622 teachers accounts 1162 student research groups 20,000(ish) analyses run 317 detectors in high schools 21029 data files 321 posters

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

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

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

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

12. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Wealth of open, cool science questions ?: WX, lightning, biology, climate, data bits, solar storms CR e-Lab --> not prescriptive, not recipes Provide resources and analysis tools Trust the teacher to guide research

13. BIG science: Students copy/reproduce Auger --> Argentina http://www.auger.org MINOS Far Detector --> Soudan Mine, Minnesota http://farweb.minos-soudan.org/events/ CMS --> LHC, CERN, Switzerland http://cms.cern.ch/ IceCube --> South Pole http://icecube.wisc.edu/ --> QuarkNet Cosmic Ray e-Lab Studies: direct analog to detector based particle physics e-Labs

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

15. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

16. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

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

18. The QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Muon Detector (CRMD) –plastic scintillator –homegrown DAQ –GPS timing Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

19. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays CRMD Typical QuarkNet Detector Setup 1. Counters-scintillators, photomultiplier tubes (two shown) 2. QuarkNet 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

20. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays CRMD expectation: --> not “plug&play” --> rather “mold&set” Direct analog of the big detectors in Tevatron and LHC

21. 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

22. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

23. 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

24. 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 Ray e-Lab and UPLOAD data

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

26. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Explore tonight Cosmic Ray e-Lab portal: http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic -->LIBRARY-->STUDYGUIDE

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

28. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

29. Cosmic Ray e-Lab Exploration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

30. 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

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

33. 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

34. 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” e-Labs

35. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab portal: http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

36. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic Login Username: Password:

37. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

38. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab --> Learner Outcomes Students will know and be able to: Content and Investigation Process Computing Literacy

39. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Go to: REGISTRATION 1st: change password --> Update your previously created groups. !! min 6 characters: alpha/numeric !! 2nd: create Student Group --> Register student research groups. Select “pencil”: yes pre/post test 3rd: add DAQ# --> Update detector IDs for your group.

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

41. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

42. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

43. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

44. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic Workflow & Milestones

45. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

46. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Pause: live action demo --> UPLOAD data: follow me --> GEOMETRY: review tutorial

47. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

48. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays ‘nother live action demo --> PERFORMANCE study What is this telling us? Why do this study? Compare? Contrast?

49. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

50. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

51. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

52. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

53. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

54. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Follow upper right:  My Logbook Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

55. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

56. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic

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

58. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e- Lab Tour http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic Reproduce analysis: --> click on plot --> run study again --> change parameters

59. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Investigation --> Team Task: Data Analysis a) Pose a simple CR research question b) Select small CR data set c) Run CR Analysis d) Save PERF and analysis plots e) Track your progress using the LOGBOOK f) Write online Poster about study with plot include PERF and analysis plot g) Share “Tricks of the Trade” about the e-Lab Judge your constraints: time and $$$

60. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Investigation --> Teacher Task: Implementation Plan a) Build classroom activity b) Load --> wiki: Workshop Deliverables http://www18.i2u2.org/forum_forum.php?id=61 ……do not yet have an account, you can create one here Invitation Code: inquiry Password: same as your e-Lab password !! Guiding Questions: How would you use the CR e-Lab in your classroom? How do the Learner Outcomes apply to your activity? What makes self-guided research beneficial? Highlight one interesting feature you found in the QN e-Lab.

61. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays CRMD/e-Lab workshop Deliverables Every project constrained: time and $$$ Cosmic Ray e-Lab Investigation --> Team Task: POSTER --> Teacher Task: Implementation Plan --> wiki workshop evals --> participants: http://www13.i2u2.org/cosmic/library/upload/4/45/QNetSurveyforFellows_061207.doc workshop report --> Fellow: http://www13.i2u2.org/cosmic/library/upload/f/f0/Fellows-wkshop-form.doc CRMDs --> Center placement list and plan

62. Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Workshop Review --> How’d we do? Assemble CRMD: plateau, geometry, data-take Record progress: LogBook Design investigation: search data, use analysis Write poster, present results Share “Implementation Plan” for the Cosmic Ray e-Lab