U.S. Education and Outreach Activities … a selection of initiative updates

1. U.S. Education and Outreach Activities … a selection of initiative updates • Fermilab Visitor Initiative • EPO in the Pierre Auger Observatory, Mendoza Province, Argentina • The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) in Nebraska, and its • affiliates • CMS Ph.D. Thesis Awards Program Gregory R. Snow University of Nebraska EPOG Meeting 23 April 2004

2. Fermilab Visitor Initiative • Labwide initiative to enhance • visitor experiences at Fermilab • Coordinated by Office of • Public Affairs • External architecture and • design firms enlisted to • facilitate common look to • several satellite Tour Areas • Multi-million $$ master plan • presented to Directorate • in July 2003 • Prototype Tour Areas • constructed/assembled for • August 2003 Lepton-Photon • Conference at the lab Feynman Computing Center CDF DØ Wilson Hall Lederman Education Center + new Visitor Center Also NuMI/MINOS and MiniBoone

3. DZERO Tour Area Run I and II detector displays, posters Live event displays from control room Opening for Lepton-Photon Conference Huge screen on shielding wall for projected images

4. Fermilab Visitor Initiative Plans presented to Fermilab staff in open forum in April 2004

5. Fermilab Visitor Initiative

6. Fermilab Visitor Initiative

7. Fermilab Visitor Initiative Funding being sought from external sources

8. The Pierre Auger Observatory Northern Hemisphere: Utah or Colorado, USA Construction starts in 2006 Southern Hemisphere: Malargüe Province of Mendoza Argentina Being constructed now 1600 detectors, 3000 km2 each site

9. The Pierre Auger Observatory • Status of Argentina site • 150 out of 1600 surface detectors installed • 2 out of 4 fluorescence telescope buildings • complete • Southern Hemisphere site complete 2005 • Extremely impressive air showers have • been observed with partial array • Northern Hemisphere site • Construction to start in 2006 • Likely site in Millard County, Utah • Setting in Argentina • 6000 people in remote small town Malargüe • Auger collaboration presence quite noticeable • Positive impact desired at many levels • Education/outreach activities organized in a • distinct subtask led by G. Snow • Example: tanks carry names provided by • local school students

10. Visitor Center at Auger Office Building Data Acquisition Visitor Center 10  12 m2

11. Visitor Center at Auger Office Building PC and multimedia projection Seats 60 people Glass cabinet for library and displays Quarter-size FD mirror set-up from Karlsruhe

12. Visitor Center at Auger Office Building SD phototube display CNEA telescope Portable “beeping” Geiger counters Notebook of PAO news articles

13. Visitor Statistics: 2002, 2003 400 2002 2342 total 200 January December 2003 5278 total 800 400 1350 Visitors January 2004

14. Argentine vs. Foreign Visitors Argentina Foreign

15. Visitor Center Web Site Home page News postings Monthly news and events E-mail bulletin

16. Auger Observatory Becoming Part of Local Culture Student writing project

17. Forum with Teachers and Students March 2004 • 120 participants • 8 Auger collaborators • Discussion of future programs • requested by teachers and • students • Many good ideas: future course • topics, coordination with School • Board, science fair, …

18. Auger 5th Anniversary in Malargüe • March 17, 2004, • marks 5 years since • the groundbreaking • ceremony in 1999 • Commemorative • poster produced to • present to city • officials, tourist • office, …

19. Eureka Science Park in MendozaParque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología • Two years of planning and logistics led to the public inauguration of an • Auger Observatory exhibit on November 22, 2003 • Outside: 2 Mexican SD tanks outdoors with explanatory signs • Inside: Italian FD prototype from Los Leones, posters, brochures, PC with • interactive activities, small displays

20. Eureka Science Museum in Mendoza • Mexican prototype • surface detector • tanks • Outfitted by UTN, • Mendoza, group

21. Eureka Science Museum Former Los Leones prototype mirrors donated to Eureka by Torino group/INFN Children are fascinated by it!

22. Eureka Science Museum Electronics displays PCs, brochures, posters Beeping Geiger counter display

23. Eureka Science Museum History of cosmic ray physics in Argentina and Auger details

24. Auger Exhibit Inauguration • Governor elect of • Mendoza Province, • Ing. Julio Cobos • Press • coverage

25. Auger Exhibit Inaugural Speeches • Sra. Lilia Dubini, Eureka museum director • Dr. Alan Watson, Auger spokesperson • Dr. Johannes Blümer, Auger spokesperson • Prof. Thomas Lohse, Humbolt University, HESS experiment • Ing. Jorge Calzoni, Vice President CNEA • Dr. Roberto Semenzato, Italian Embassy • Sra. Maria Landa de Gonzales, Mexican Embassy in Mendoza • Sra. Kathleen Barmon, U.S. Embassy • Dr. Rolf Schumacher, German Ambassador to Argentina • Dr. Celso Jacque, Mayor of Malargüe, National Senator elect • Dr. Raúl Rodríguez, Mayor elect of Malargüe • Ing. Arturo Somoza, Vice Rector of National University of Cuyo • Ing. Julio Cobos, Governor elect of Mendoza Province

26. Press coverage, press releases Mendoza Eureka exhibit opening

27. Press coverage, press releases Continuing effort to secure $500K funding for planetarium interior. City of Malargüe committed to provide exterior building.

28. Press coverage, press releases Rumbos Magazine (Los Andes)

29. Press coverage, press releases December 2003 Louisiana State, Jim Matthews January 2004 Professors, students part of effort to learn about cosmic rays The mention of Argentina conjures any number of exotic or dramatic images ... Eva Peron ... dancing the tango ... gauchos riding the plains ... falling high-energy cosmic rays …..

30. High School Based Cosmic Ray Research Major Efforts in North America and Europe Nebraska’s CROP Cosmic Ray Observatory Project North American sites WALTA ALTA SALTA CROP SCROD • $1.34 Million U.S. NSF funding • (Education and HEP divisions) • 24 high school teams have installed • detectors, GPS, data-acquisition • electronics, PC for data collection Pierre Auger northern hemisphere site in Utah/Colorado CHICOS

31. Coleridge Mullen Loup Spalding McPherson The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project A grid of cosmic ray research stations expanding across the state 250 miles 450 miles CROP schools enlisted in 2000 2001 2002 2003

32. Event counter CROP data acquisition electronics card Developed by Univ. Nebraska, Fermilab (Quarknet), Univ. Washington Programmable logic device Time-to-digital converters To PC serial port GPS receiver input Four analog PMT inputs 5 Volt DC power • 43 Mhz (24 nsec) clock interpolates • between 1 pps GPS ticks for trigger time • TDC’s give relative times of 4 inputs with • 75 psec resolution Discriminator threshold adjust

33. CROP data acquisition electronics card Papers in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 51, No. 3, June 2004

34. GRID computing being applied to data analysis needs Web site explains data analysis framework See: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/grid/

35. Web site explains data analysis framework See: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/grid/

36. Web site explains data analysis framework See: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/grid/

37. Schools can upload raw data files to server.

38. Some simple analysis tools in place. Example: search for time coincidences among chosen schools’ data files.

39. CMS Ph.D. Thesis Awards Program • Fashioned after Fermilab’s lab-wide Thesis Award program sponsored • by Universities Research Association. • CMS annual Thesis Award Program initiated in 1999. • Recognition of outstanding academic contributions to CMS experiment • by graduate students. • Rotating six-member committee judged nominated theses on basis of • Physics impact in CMS and HEP field in general • Originality • Clarity of writing • Award recipient receives an engraved plaque and expenses paid to • an international conference to present the thesis results.

40. CMS Ph.D. Thesis Award Recipients 2000: Dr. Pascal Vanlaer Université Libre de BruxellesTitle: Contribution to the study of the central tracking system of the CMS detector, at the future proton collider LHC 2001: Dr. Ivica Puljak Université Paris VI and Technical University of SplitTitle: CMS discovery potential for the Higgs boson in the H  ZZ*  4e± decay channel. Contribution to the construction of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter. 2002: Dr. Giacomo BrunoUniversità degli Studi di PaviaTitle: The RPC Detectors and the Muon System for the CMS Experiment at the LHC. 2003: Dr. Riccardo Ranieri Università degli Studi di Firenze Title:Trigger Selection of WH    b b with CMS With Lorenzo Foà, CMS Collaboration Board Chair