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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
DØCDF
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
PAO Visitors - 2003
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Visitor Statistics: 2002, 2003
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20035278 total
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January December
1350VisitorsJanuary2004
Argentine vs. Foreign Visitors
Argentina
Foreign
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
SCRODSALTA
CHICOS
WALTA ALTA
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