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Masterclass at CERN Despina Hatzifotiadou 26th EPPOG Meeting 16 April 2010 Oslo
The CERN Masterclass
When Wednesday 3rd CERN 2010
Participants71 pupils from the Lycée International de Ferney-Voltaire (France)Accompanied by 2 physics teachers and 2 other adultsPremière scientifique + seconde internationale (english, spanish, dutch,..)No terminale (they have too heavy a workload for the Baccalaureat)
OrganisationCorinne Pralavorio (+ Marie Bugnon) from CERNPart of various initiatives of the local communications group, involving the French andSwiss communities in the vicinity of CERN(Another example : Dessine-moi un physicien, involving elementary school children)
Help fromCERN visits service (for the visits)Many physicists (for the lectures and the exercise)
Masterclass at CERN Despina Hatzifotiadou 26th EPPOG Meeting 16 April 2010 Oslo
Programme of the day
Morning Standard (short) CERN visit including• Presentation of CERN and what it does• Visit of one of the following sites:
• ATLAS visitors centre• PS, LEIR and LINAC 2• CAST experiment and LHCB surface exhibition (P8)
Lectures on• Particle Physics • Detectors
Lunch
Afternoon14:00 - 16:00 Z0 exercise (Identifying particles, OPAL data)16:30 - 17:30 video conference with other institutes (Poland, US, Portugal)
Masterclass at CERN Despina Hatzifotiadou 26th EPPOG Meeting 16 April 2010 Oslo
The Zº exerciseThe pupils were placed in 4 rooms with PCs in the CERN training centre (bldg 572)They worked in groups of 2 and analysed 100 events per groupTwo physicists in each room to help
First : introduction (powerpoint) on particle identification, OPAL etc
The video conference
In the CERN IT Auditorium (bldg 31 - 3 - 004)Moderators were somewhere in the same building (?)We were connected with• University of California, Riverside (US)• Faro (Portugal)• Lodz (Poland)
Masterclass at CERN Despina Hatzifotiadou 26th EPPOG Meeting 16 April 2010 Oslo
The video conference
Masterclass at CERN Despina Hatzifotiadou 26th EPPOG Meeting 16 April 2010 Oslo
Debriefing with teacher • General appreciation (teachers and pupils) positive.
• The day was too long; lunch pause was too short
• The visits were very different - depends on the guide• (some were too technical; others explained well; maybe language problem)
• The lectures : various comments (some overlap)• Enjoyed hearing about superstrings (level should not be kept too low)• Not much on detectors (e.g. very little on electron identification)
• Exercise was interesting ; they saw it as a sort of game• No connection between the visit and the exercise
• Discussion of results : not uniform - more work on this needed
• Video conference : not interesting (left too much time for general questions)• Could not see well who was talking• Too long• The quizz was good • The pupils had to catch a bus back at 17:30 ; the answers of the quizz were given by the local• organiser
Masterclass at CERN Despina Hatzifotiadou 26th EPPOG Meeting 16 April 2010 Oslo
Some more comments
The OPAL exercise : very well structured (step by step, examples, training etc)Overall method of input of results : very efficient
CERN training centre : ideal, provided available Abundance of physicists around
Teachers : very enthusiastic response; declared ready to participate in future activities
Testbench for future (LHC) masterclass exercises..