Cosmic e-Lab Collaboration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Cosmic e-Lab Collaboration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

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

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Active QuarkNet Centers

Cosmic Rays Sources Composition, energy spectrum Detection Current experiments Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • 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 • 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

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • 344 teachers / 348 high schools • 647 student research groups • over 55,000 analyses run • 299 detectors in high schools • 12855 data files • 154 posters

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

Sources of Cosmic Rays Supernova remnants Active galaxies (?) Quasars (?) Gamma Ray Bursters (?) Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

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

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Run: CR shower video if fast connection

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Wealth of open science questions • Students participate in active, big science • QuarkNet --> not prescriptive, not recipes • Provide resources and analysis tools • Trust the teacher to guide research

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

Overview: Cosmic Ray Detector Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

The QuarkNet Classroom Detector plastic scintillator homegrown DAQ GPS timing Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Typical QuarkNet Detector Setup 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

DAQ Hardware measures light pulse timing ambient temperature atmospheric pressure Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Experiments include • Flux studies • Time correlation • Shielding • Particle speed • Particle lifetime • Altitude attenuation

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

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

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays NEXT SESSION: Breakout into small teams --> Assemble cosmic ray detectors 4 counters: one team each DAQ/GPS: one team Tomorrow: cosmic e-Lab and UPLOAD data

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

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Explore tonight Cosmic e-Lab portal: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab -->LIBRARY-->STUDYGUIDE

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

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

Cosmic e-Lab Exploration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab

DAQ Hardware measures light pulse timing ambient temperature atmospheric pressure Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Experiments include • Flux studies • Time correlation • Shielding • Particle speed • Particle lifetime • Altitude attenuation

Raw Data Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays 02F17C70 AE 3E 23 30 00 01 00 01 01BAB196 053657.359 260105 A 10 0 +0365 19262F0A 80 01 00 01 00 01 3B 01 1814BD14 053706.358 260105 A 10 0 +0365 19262F0B 28 01 00 01 00 01 01 2A 1814BD14 053706.358 260105 A 10 0 +0365 19262F0C 01 21 00 01 00 01 00 01 1814BD14 053706.358 260105 A 10 0 +0365 23246B23 A5 34 00 01 00 01 2E 3A 2203DEA2 053710.358 260105 A 10 0 +0366 . . . 2453396 6341848883424871 6341848883426071 12.00

There has to be an easier way . . . -->cosmic e-Lab Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic e-Lab portal: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs

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

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs Login Username: Password:

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs Workflow & Milestones

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • Pause: live action demo • Login • Goto: REGISTRATION • Add DAQ# • UPLOAD data: follow me

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays • ‘nother live action demo • PERFORMANCE study What is this telling us?

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs Follow upper right:  My Logbook

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

Teaching and Learning with Cosmic Rays Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs Reproduce analysis: --> click on plot --> run study again --> change parameters

Cosmic e-Lab Collaboration Bob Peterson Fermi National Accelerator Lab