1. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 In 2007, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will begin to generate opposing 7 TeV proton beams.

2. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 What might 14 TeV collision yield? Find the Higgs? Supersymmetry? Gravitons? Exotic particles?

3. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 First, a look at CERN : image\cern2min.rm

4. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 How will we respond as Physics teachers? Does it matter? What will we do? What will QuarkNet do?

5. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 The QuarkNet website: a good start http://quarknet.fnal.gov

6. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 The QuarkNet Cosmic Ray eLah is a prototype for CMS and ATLAS eLabs.

7. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 Can we get this sort of student/teacher analysis of LHC data?

8. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 Ideas Facts People We found them all… Beth Marchant and I went to the CMS meeting at CERN in search of…

9. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 We got the ball rolling: Weblog QN Postings at http://quarknet.blogspot.com http://quarknet.blogspot.com ATLAS Images at http://www.jlab.org/~cecire/ATLASimage/ATLASimage.ppt

10. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 ATLAS: A Toroidal Lhc ApparatuS Largest detector Assembled 100 m underground Characterized by its giant toroidal magnets

11. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 July 2005 December 2005 In the cavern…

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16. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 CMS: the Compact Muon Solenoid Most massive Still above ground Will be lowered in sections Nice place for a party?

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20. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 More about CMS…

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22. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 Tell us about CMS, Beth…

23. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 What do you think, Lucien?

24. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 People… Silvia Schuh, ATLAS Dan Karmgard, UND and CMS (QN-PI), with raclette

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26. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 Other sights in and around CERN… Beth in CERN Restaurant #1

27. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 La Pomme de la Morte, St. Genis

28. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 The Bear the blows bubbles in the shopping mall of Val Thoiry

29. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 The Borg The view from Uetliberg And in Zurich…

30. CERN and Physics Education Mayaguez, PR March 11, 2006 Where do we go from here? How might the Puerto Rico QN center respond to the LHC? What would help your class? What would interest your students? What would you like to see from QN?