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. SnowUniversity of Nebraska

EPOG Meeting23 April 2004

Feynman ComputingCenter

Wilson Hall

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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

Lederman EducationCenter + new Visitor Center

Also NuMI/MINOS and MiniBoone

DZERO Tour Area

Opening for Lepton-Photon ConferenceHuge screen on shielding wall for projected images

Run I and II detector displays, posters Live event displays from control room

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Fermilab Visitor Initiative

Plans presented to Fermilab staff in open forum in April 2004

Fermilab Visitor Initiative

Fermilab Visitor Initiative

Fermilab Visitor Initiative

Funding being sought fromexternal sources

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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• 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

The Pierre Auger Observatory

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 display

CNEA telescope

Portable “beeping” Geiger counters

Notebook of PAO news articles

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Visitor Statistics: 2002, 2003

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1350VisitorsJanuary2004

Argentine vs. Foreign Visitors

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Visitor Center Web Site

News at the Web, and by e-mail

Home page

News postings

Monthly news and events E-mail bulletin

Auger Observatory Becoming Part of Local Culture

Student writing project

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, …

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, …

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

Eureka Science Museum in Mendoza

• Mexican prototype surface detector tanks

• Outfitted by UTN, Mendoza, group

Eureka Science MuseumFormer Los Leones prototype mirrorsdonated to Eureka by Torino group/INFN

Children are fascinated by it!

Eureka Science Museum

Electronics displays PCs, brochures, posters

BeepingGeigercounterdisplay

Eureka Science Museum

History of cosmic ray physicsin Argentina and Auger details

Auger Exhibit Inauguration

• Governor elect of Mendoza Province, Ing. Julio Cobos

• Press coverage

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

Press coverage, press releases

Mendoza

Eureka exhibit opening

Press coverage, press releasesContinuing effort to secure $500K funding for planetarium interior.

City of Malargüe committed to provide exterior building.

Rumbos Magazine (Los Andes)

Press coverage, press releases

December 2003

Press coverage, press releases

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 …..

Louisiana State, Jim MatthewsJanuary 2004

CROP

Pierre Auger northern hemisphere site in Utah/Colorado

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High School Based Cosmic Ray ResearchMajor Efforts in North America and Europe

North American sites Nebraska’s CROPCosmic Ray Observatory Project

• $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

CROP schools enlisted in 2000 2001 2002 2003

250 miles

450 miles

The Cosmic Ray Observatory ProjectA grid of cosmic ray research stations

expanding across the state

Coleridge

McPherson

MullenLoup

Spalding

5 VoltDC power

To PCserial port

Four analogPMT inputs

Discriminatorthreshold

adjust

GPS receiverinput

Eventcounter

Programmablelogic device

Time-to-digitalconverters

CROP data acquisition electronics card

Developed 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

CROP data acquisition electronics card

Papers in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 51, No. 3, June 2004

GRID computing being applied to data analysis needs

Web site explains data analysis frameworkSee: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/grid/

Web site explains data analysis frameworkSee: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/grid/

Web site explains data analysis frameworkSee: http://quarknet.fnal.gov/grid/

Schools can upload raw data files to server.

Some simple analysis tools in place.Example: search for time coincidences among chosen

schools’ data files.

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.

CMS Ph.D. Thesis Award Recipients

2000: Dr. Pascal Vanlaer Université Libre de Bruxelles Title: 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 Split Title: 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 RanieriUniversità degli Studi di FirenzeTitle: Trigger Selection of WH b b with CMS

With Lorenzo Foà,CMS Collaboration

Board Chair