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U.S. Education and Outreach Activities… a selection of initiative updates
• Physics Today article, January 2005
• The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) in Nebraska
• EPO in the Pierre Auger Observatory, Mendoza Province, Argentina
• EPO associated with Int’l Linear Collider workshops in Snowmass, Colorado, August 2005
Gregory R. SnowUniversity of Nebraska
EPOG Meeting in Valencia8 April 2005
Physics Today, January 2005
• “How to Popularize Physics” by Elizabeth Simmons, Michigan State University
• Former chair of the APS Division of Particles and Fields Education/Outreach Committee
• Excellent article that covers many US initiatives in particle physics and other subfields of physics, National Science Foundation support
The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) in Nebraska
Colored squares show 26 participating schools
700 km
Summer 2004 Workshop ActivitiesDetector assembly and testing
Summer Workshop ActivitiesAttaching phototubes
Summer 2004 Workshop ActivitiesOscilloscope and DAQ card lessons
Summer 2004 Workshop ActivitiesPractice experiments to be performed at school
Summer 2004 Workshop ActivitiesDetectors return to school
5 VoltDC power
To PCserial port
Four analogPMT inputs
Discriminatorthreshold
adjust
GPS receiverinput
Eventcounter
Programmablelogic device
Time-to-digitalconverters
CROP data acquisition electronics cardDeveloped by Univ. Nebraska, Fermilab (Quarknet), Univ. Washington
• 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
User-friendly, LabView-based control and monitoring GUI
Two detectorsfiring at thesame time
Data streamfor eachevent
Eventcounter
Elapsedrun
time
Labview softwareTabs for different experimental procedures
Simultaneous data-taking at 3 sites in Lincoln
UNL Ferguson Hall
Lincoln High
Zoo School
• Concerted effort to collect data continuously since mid-August 2004• Each school writes data file, collected twice per week.• Analysis file-by-file at UNL• We are observing inter-school coincidences within 1 microsecond• These are candidates for air showers with E > 1018 eV
Some lessons learned
• Big variation among schools in independent activity/investigations during school year. Some real successes, some inactive sites
• Close contact very important during academic year
• Scheme for replacing/training new students as classes graduate important
• Classroom integration, affect on curriculum is not automatic. Scheme to guide this needed.
• Hardware and software delays create frustration and idleness
• Hard to recruit for long summer workshops
• High school schedules are packed, hard to get full participation in academic year Saturday meetings of all participants
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The Pierre Auger Observatory
Southern Hemisphere:Malargüe
Province of MendozaArgentina
Being constructed now
Northern Hemisphere:Utah or Colorado, USA
Construction startsin 2006
1600 detectors, 3000 km2 each site
Status of Argentina site• 800 out of 1600 surface detectors installed• 3 out of 4 fluorescence telescope buildings complete• Southern Hemisphere site complete late 2005• First physics results to be presented at the ICRC 2005 conference in India in July
Northern Hemisphere site• Construction to start in 2006• Utah vs. Colorado site selection in
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
The Pierre Auger Observatory
CERN’s 50th Anniversary, October 16, 2004
30,000 visitors overall, thousands of visitors to the Auger Observatory display
CERN’s 50th Anniversary, October 16, 2004
Co-spokesperson Hans Blümer with visitors
Visit from CERN Director General,Robert Aymar, who knows AugerObservatory well
Fermilab’s 15th Floor of Wilson Hall
• “From Quarks to the Cosmos” display features Auger Observatory
• Detector models and other displays mounted for opening of FNAL astrophysics center, November 2004
Visitor Center at Auger Office Building
Visitor Center10 12 m2
Data Acquisition
Seats 60 people
Quarter-size FD mirrorset-up from Karlsruhe
Visitor Center at Auger Office Building
Glass cabinet forlibrary and displays
PC and multimediaprojection
Visitor Center at Auger Office Building
SD phototube displayCNEA telescope
Portable “beeping” Geiger countersNotebook of PAO news articles
Visitor Center Continued Success
Students from Escuela Gendarme Argentino, Malargüe
29 October 2004
Current Visitor Center Statistics
Compiled by Analía Cáceres
TOTAL DE VI SI TANTES "OBSERVATORI O PI ERRE AUGER"
AÑO 20035318
AÑO 20045548
AÑO 2001 336
AÑO 20022342
• 13,544 total visitors registered by the end of 2004
• 12,975 Argentina, 569 other countries
Auger members participatingin Malargüe Day parade, November 2004
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Other Malargüe Day parade photos
New “James Cronin School” in Malargüe
Construction started March 2005
Present school location
• Long effort to build new science school coming to fruition
• Large donation from the Grainger Foundation
• Funds managed by Auger Collaboration
• Curriculum input
Observatory Inauguration, November 2005
• Major public relations and media event
• November 10-11, 2005, in Malargüe
• Expect 75 government officials, ambassadors, funding agency representatives
• Ribbon cutting ceremony, talks, tours of remote detector sites
• To be held after November 2005 inauguration ceremony in the Assembly Building: Friday evening and Saturday, Nov. 11-12• Team of Auger collaborators will serve as exhibit judges• Schedule and milestones discussed with Local Org. Committee
• Solicitation and pre-selection of exhibits• Local and regional participation
Assembly Building to be clearedfor inauguration and science fair
Start of Northern Site Outreach Efforts
• J. Harton, G. Snow met with Southeast Colorado Board of School Administrators to discuss teacher and student projects, 1 September 2004• Follow-up meeting with regional teachers planned in 2005• Host: Lamar Community College• Similar meetings planned in Utah, facilitated by University VC for Research• Laying groundwork for Education/Outreach part of Northern Site proposal
Colorado candidate site
Auger Visualizations from Univ. of Chicago
By the “COSMUS” KICP outreach groupRandy Landsberg, Mark SubbaRao, Dinoj Surendranhttp://astro.uchicago.edu/cosmus/projects/auger/
1 TeV primary
Aires simulationby Maximo Ave
EPO at ILC workshop in Snowmass, Colorado, August 2005
• Major ILC workshop in Snowmass, August 14-27, organized by the American Linear Collider Physics Group and the ILC
• Associated EPO activities• 2 public lectures• Duplicate of Fermilab’s Quantum Universe Exhibit in downtown Aspen• “Dark Matter Cafe” in a Snowmass restaurant with special food/drinks and information for the public• 3-day teacher professional development workshop for teachers in QuarkNet and SALTA – cosmic ray detector array party and Hispanic outreach program in Carbondale• Enhancement of ILC web sites for the public, teachers, students
• EPO activities organized by representatives from APS Division of Particles and Fields, QuarkNet, and CROP
• Workshop web site http://alcpg2005.colorado.edu
Colorado• Aspen High School, Aspen, CO
• Basalt High School, Basalt, CO
• Roaring Fork Valley High School, Carbondale, CO
• Lake County High School, Leadville, CO The highest-elevation school in the U.S. -- 10,152 feet ASL Illinois• Wheaton North High School, Wheaton, IL
SALTA: Snowmass Area Large Time-Coincidence Array
Underground Neutrino Observatory
The proposed next-generation underground water Čerenkov detector
to probe physics beyond the sensitivity of the highly successful Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan
U.S. sites being considered:
The Henderson (Colorado), Homestake (Lead, SD) and Soudan (Minn) mines, the San Jacinto Mountain (CA) and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, WIPP (New Mexico).
Henderson Mine Visit
Dec 4, 2003hosted by
Chip deWolfe
Marc Whitley Diana Kruis Nancy Spletzer Aspen High School Basalt High School Clear Creek High School
Michelle Ernzen Laura FrenchLake County School Roaring Fork Valley