1. QuarkNet Beyond the First Year
What happens next?
What?!! A 3-week workshop!
My experience at Notre Dame
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

2. What happens next? QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

3. You’ve mentored 2 high school physics teachers.
You’ve spent 7 weeks teaching new researchers.
You’ve answered a zillion questions about physics, particle physics and “classroom transfer.”
You’ve learned a bit about how the “usual” high school physics class is taught.
That wasn’t so bad . . .
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

4. Now you get to: Recruit 10 more teachers
Plan and implement a 3-week workshop
Find speakers
Figure out what “classroom transfer” means
Reserve rooms, labs
Pay 10 more teachers
Schedule activities for 3 weeks
Keep up with 12 total teachers through the academic year
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

5. What?!! A 3-week workshop!
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

6. Lead teachers and mentors plan Associate Teacher Institute together.
ATI is parallel to the Lead Teacher Institute but sensitive to local teachers’ needs.
Approximately 10 associate teachers join the Center.
Largest group of teachers added to QuarkNet Center.
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

7. Associate Teacher Institute
10 Associate Teachers
2 Mentors
2 Lead Teachers
Associate Teacher Institute
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

8. The ATI program is research-based; for example, experimenting with cosmic ray detectors. Some groups complete detectors and then use them in their classrooms.
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

9. Each center hosts a two to three week Associate Teacher Institute (100 hours minimum)
Generally, institutes meet for three 5-day weeks or two 5-day weeks with plans to meet on five Saturdays (or holidays) during the academic year.
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

10. My Experience at Notre Dame
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

11. Vision
A community of researchers including high school teachers, faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students and high school students.
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

12. Recruiting Meeting, Fall 1999
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

13. Fermilab QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

14. The e- was discovered by Thompson ~ 1900
The e- was discovered by Thompson ~ The nucleus was discovered by Rutherford in ~ The e+, the first antiparticle, was found in ~ The m , indicating a second “generation”, was discovered in ~ 1936.
There was an explosion of baryons and mesons discovered in the 1950s and 1960s. They were classified in a "periodic table" using the SU(3) symmetry group, whose physical realization was point-like, strongly-interacting, fractionally-charged "quarks." Direct evidence for quarks and gluons came in the early 1970s.
The exposition of the 3 generations of quarks and leptons is only just, in 1996, completed. In the mid 1980s, the unification of the weak and electromagnetic force was confirmed by the W and Z discoveries.
The LHC, starting in 2005, 2006, 2007?, 2008? will be THE tool to explore the origin of the breaking of the electroweak symmetry (Higgs field?) and the origin of mass itself.
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

15. E2 = p2c2 + m2c4 New Physics: Higgs Bosons Supersymmetry String Theory
A key equation:
E2 = p2c2 + m2c4
New Physics:
Higgs Bosons
Supersymmetry
String Theory
Hidden Dimensions
looking for particles based on energy, momentum and mass
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

16. The D detector has 3 main detector systems; ionization tracking, liquid argon calorimetry ( EM , e , and HAD , jets), magnetized steel + ionization tracker and muon detection/identification. This event has jets, a muon, an electron and missing energy , n.
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

17. SM Fundamental Particle Appears As   (ECAL shower, no track)
e e (ECAL shower, with track)
  (ionization only)
g Jet in ECAL+ HCAL
q = u, d, s Jet (narrow) in ECAL+HCAL
q = c, b Jet (narrow) + Decay Vertex
t --> W +b W + b
e Et missing in ECAL+HCAL
-->l +  +l Et missing + charged lepton
W --> l + l Et missing + charged lepton,
Et~M/2
Z --> l+ + l charged lepton pair
--> l + l Et missing in ECAL+HCAL
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

18. QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

19. QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
Research next
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

20. QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

21. QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
choosing students
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member

22. QuarkNet After the First Year
Things change – 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.
Research and classroom become foci
Communication leads to teachers becoming members of the particle physics community
Collaboration formed – mentor(s)-teacher(s)
QuarkNet Mentor Presentation – April 22, 2003
B. Beiersdorf, QuarkNet Staff Member