The QuarkNet Center at Notre Dame Randy Ruchti Department of Physics University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana.
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The QuarkNet Centerat
Notre Dame
Randy Ruchti
Department of Physics
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
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Geographic Region: Michiana
Fermilab
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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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Physicists (Mentors)Jim BishopDan KarmgardRandy RuchtiMitch Wayne
QuarkNet StaffPat MooneyBeth Beiersdorf
CMS/DØ StaffBarry BaumbaughJeff MarchantMike McKennaMark Vigneault
Administrative AssistanceJennifer MaddoxSharon Clark
Lead TeachersLeRoy Castle, La PorteDale Wiand, Adams
Associate TeachersKen Andert, LaLumiereKen Andrzewski, MarionJeff Chorny, LakeShore Helene Douerty, St. JosephEd Fidler, LaLumiereTom Guthrie, PennMaggie Jensen, GavitKevin Johnston, JimtownMonica Konrath, Oregon-DavisTom Loughran, TrinityRick Roberts, ClayGerry Van Laecke, Clay
Student TeacherBob LeBlanc, Notre Dame
ND QuarkNet Center
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QuarkNet Staff and Teachers
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Student/Teacher Involvement
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ND QuarkNet Summer 2000
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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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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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1st Shift 2nd ShiftLunch
Summer Student Research
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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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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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CMS HCAL Subsystem Locations
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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 2001-2002
• 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 9-29-01
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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– 8 weeks
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REHSS Pilot ProgramStudent 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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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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