1. The QuarkNet Center at Notre Dame
Randy Ruchti
Department of Physics
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

2. Geographic Region: Michiana
Fermilab
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3. Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
Vision
A community of researchers including faculty, technical staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students and high school teachers, high school students.
Location
- Just south of ND’s campus at 929 N Eddy St, South Bend
- Fully functional research lab.
- Houses offices, lab spaces, and student experimental areas.
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ND QuarkNet Center
Physicists (Mentors)
Jim Bishop
Dan Karmgard
Randy Ruchti
Mitch Wayne
QuarkNet Staff
Pat Mooney
Beth Beiersdorf
CMS/DØ Staff
Barry Baumbaugh
Jeff Marchant
Mike McKenna
Mark Vigneault
Administrative Assistance
Jennifer Maddox
Sharon Clark
Lead Teachers
LeRoy Castle, La Porte
Dale Wiand, Adams
Associate Teachers
Ken Andert, LaLumiere
Ken Andrzewski, Marion
Jeff Chorny, LakeShore
Helene Douerty, St. Joseph
Ed Fidler, LaLumiere
Tom Guthrie, Penn
Maggie Jensen, Gavit
Kevin Johnston, Jimtown
Monica Konrath, Oregon-Davis
Tom Loughran, Trinity
Rick Roberts, Clay
Gerry Van Laecke, Clay
Student Teacher
Bob LeBlanc, Notre Dame
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5. QuarkNet Staff and Teachers
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6. Student/Teacher Involvement
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ND QuarkNet Summer 2000
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8. Notre Dame Center Summer Activity
Associate Teacher Institute (1-3 weeks)
12+ Teachers involved
Research Experience for Teachers (8 Weeks)
12 Teachers involved
DØ, CMS, Detector Development (SBIR), Cosmic Ray Detectors
Research Experience for High School Students (8 Weeks)
13-15 Students involved each summer.
DØ Central Fiber Tracker
CMS HCAL Readout Boxes/Optical Decoding
Lectures, Tours, Scientific Discussions, Social Gatherings
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9. Program Derived from Detector R&D
DØ Central Fiber Tracker
Active targets based on Ce(3+) coherent fiber-optic plates with image intensifiers
PS/3HF organic scintillator
Multi-clad optical fibers
Visible Light Photon Counters
SBIR
New scintillators and waveshifters
CMS HCAL
Optical readout and decoding of the sampling calorimeters for barrel, endcap and outer barrel subdetectors.
Multi-clad optical fibers
Hybrid photodiodes
Cosmic Ray Detectors
Based on Tb(3+) coherent fiber-optic plates with image intensifiers
NASM- Smithsonian, CERN SX5 visitors gallery, Fermilab, Snowmass 2001
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10. Summer Student Research
1st Shift
2nd Shift
Lunch
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DØ CFT Effort
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The DØ Upgrade CFT
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DØ Fiber Waveguides
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14. DØ Central Fiber Tracker
“Student involvement at its best”
  Joe Martin and Amy DeCelles are QuarkNet students of Patrick Mooney at Trinity High School in South Bend, Indiana. His group of students, most of them seniors at various high schools in an around South Bend, recently visited Fermilab to learn more about the laboratory and to see the 40-foot-high DZero detector.
Every morning at 7:30 a.m., five days a week, students of our QuarkNet group are on shift at a science lab near Notre Dame to prepare optical for use in waveguides as part of Fermilab's DZero detector," Martin said. "In the afternoon we have lectures on related physics aspects and how DZero will use the fibers we assembled. In addition to earning some money, we learn a lot."
"We get spools with 2,500 meters of fibers, and we check, bundle and shield them. Then we send the fibers to Fermilab, where they put connectors on the endings and install the fibers in the detector," DeCelles said. "It is our responsibility to identify fibers that do not work and replace them."
The QuarkNet program seems to be well on its way to achieving its goals, stimulating interest in science among high school students. Will they consider studying physics when they start college next year? DeCelles and her peer students didn't hesitate. "Absolutely!" they said. They'd been caught in the QuarkNet.
FermiNews, Vol.23 No.13
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CMS at CERN/LHC
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16. CMS HCAL Subsystem Locations
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17. Overview of RBX Placement
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ODU for CMS/HCAL
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ODU for CMS/HCAL
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ODU for CMS/HCAL
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ODU for CMS/HCAL
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Cosmic Ray Detectors
B. Baumbaugh at the opening of the new gallery Explore the Universe, National Air and Space Museum
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Academic Credit
Academic Structure
3-8 week summer research
PHYS 598Q (teachers) 1-3 credits
PHYS 098Q (students) 1-3 credits
academic year research
PHYS 598R (teachers) 1 credit
PHYS 098R (students) 1 credit
discussion sections, laboratory activity, field trips, seminars
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Directions
Annual Kickoff Meeting – September
Weekly Meetings on Mondays: 16:30–18:00 at the QuarkNet Center
Reunion – November at Fermilab
AAPT – January in Philadelphia
Science Alive – February in South Bend
HASTI – February in Indianapolis
IN-AAPT – April in Indianapolis
BRISC – April in San Francisco
QN Summer Institute – 1 Week - June at Notre Dame
Modeling Workshop – 3 Weeks - July at Notre Dame
RET and REHS – 8 Weeks - June to August at Notre Dame
AAPT – August in Boise
Beam Testing for CMS – June to August at CERN
Data Taking for DØ – All Year
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Kickoff Meeting
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26. Science Alive – Outreach to the South Bend Community
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Directions – Summer 2002
RET – Research Experiences for Teachers (regional)
Astrophysics, Biophysics, HEP-CMS, HEP-D0, HEP-Det R&D, Nuclear
8 weeks
Modeling Workshop (national) in association with Arizona State University
Mechanics, Modern Physics
3 weeks
Participants from QuarkNet Centers around the country
REHS – Research Experiences for HS Students (Pilot Program)
Principally CMS HCAL
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28. REHSS Pilot Program Student Researchers
1999
David Dickerson (Indiana University)
Daniel Saddawi-Konefka (Northwestern)
2000
Ravi Bhavsar (Purdue)
Robert Bourke (Michigan)
Michael Busk (Notre Dame)
Zachary Clark (Purdue)
J. Patrick Davenport (Taylor)
Amy DeCelles (U Chicago)
Andrew Evers (HS Senior)
Noopor Garg (HS Senior)
Joseph Martin (HS Senior)
Sheila May (U of Southern California)
Gregory Outlaw (U of Miami)
Robert Ribeiro (HS-senior)
Jenny Tristano (U Chicago)
Kara Whitaker (Notre Dame)
Roger Wiltfong (HS-senior)
2001
Kevin Alby (SB Adams)
Patricia Brewer (Trinity)
Jasmine Cashbaugh (St. Joseph)
Nicholas Erdman (Lakeshore, MI)
Andrew Evers (Jimtown)
Mark Gromski (SB LaSalle)
John Higgins (LaLumiere)
Kristyn Kapetanovic (Gavit)
Jon Lawson (Trinity)
Eric Martin (LaLumiere)
Julia Novak (Gavit)
Eugenia Tanner (SB LaSalle)
Daniel Vanderkam (St. Joseph)
Roger Wiltfong (SB Riley)
Tim Winter (Lakeshore, MI)
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29. How Many High School Students Impacted?
Summer Research Experience – 30
Academic Year Research Experience – 1
Science Alive - 25
QuarkNet Lab Tours – 45
Fermilab Tours – 100
School Visitations by Mentors – 350
Teacher classrooms - 400
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The ND QuarkNet Center
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