quarknet seminar
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Quarknet Seminar. Alisa Bredensteiner Endeavour Institute Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics Quarknet August 2010. What happens when you mix one exuberant teacher…. … a group of excited educators…. … some really expensive equipment…. … and lots of tape?. Cosmic Ray Detection. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Quarknet Seminar
Alisa BredensteinerEndeavour Institute
Santa Cruz Institute of Particle PhysicsQuarknet
August 2010
What happens when you mix one exuberant teacher…
… a group of excited
educators…
… some really expensive equipment…
… and lots of tape?
Cosmic Ray Detection
What I have gained from my week at SCIPP
• A better understanding of Cosmic Rays, particle decay, Supersymmetry and the Multiverse!
• A great reminder of how incredibly huge I am compared to say a muon.
• A great reminder of how incredibly tiny I am compared to say a universe.
• A CRMD • The tools to bring ‘real physics’ and cutting
edge scientific discovery to my classroom
Classroom Application2nd and 3rd year Endeavour students • One week introduction and research on
Cosmic Rays and muon detection• 3 weeks for student developed experiments,
analysis, and poster presentation.Future aspirations• Collaborative projects (comparison studies,
shower studies, etc…) with other schools• Introductory Unit with 1st year students