# Presentation: 665776

## Data Projects

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- T. Jordan,  Advisory Board Meeting -  November 2002

- Thomas Jordan
- FNAL
- jordant@fnal.gov

## NSF ESIE Proposal:

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* **. . . To facilitate classroom change, we will provide access to a wide variety of online instructional resources including raw datasets and primary sources, and manipulative,interactive and physical materials. . . .*

- August, 1998

- Wesley Smith, University of Wisconsin, CMS TrDAS:

* **. . . There should be a trigger dedicated to QuarkNet. . . .*

## . . . Raw Datasets . . .

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* **We feel that this will be iterative and have made two first-order attempts to prepare for “live” data:*
* **Run II website *
* **Online cosmic ray detector*

## Run II Website:

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## Run II Website:

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## Run II Website:

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*They use three types of data. . . . *

***Plots from the experiments***

***Excel spreadsheets***

***Student generated plots***

## Run II Website:

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*. . . and make cuts on b lifetime **&** W mass, as well as generate di-jet mass plots.*

*Thanks to John Conway (Rutgers, CDF Higgs group) for the Monte Carlo Higgs and background data.*
*Also to William Wester (FNAL, CDF) for the data for Z and W reconstruction.*

## Online Cosmic Ray Detector:

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## Online Cosmic Ray Detector:

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*An array of three scintillating plastic counters *
*A dedicated DAQ reads out the PMTs, discriminates the signals and performs all of the trigger logic.*
*Two triggers: >1-fold coincidence, decay candidates*
*A serial connection ports trigger data to an Apple machine in my office which cleans and writes the data to AFS space (QNet webserver).*

## Online Cosmic Ray Detector:

- 00008BBC	51	01	0006
- 001B5FD0	51	01	00C2
- 08CF5AC1	55	02	0004
- 04674DAF	15
- 0A765889	13
- 0479AA86	15
- 0A8D50B4	15
- 35C52035	55	02	0004
- 0E713BBC	15
- 0F6DC58C	55	02	0003
- 0B7D7752	15
- 0FA58EEF	55	04	0003
- 3D24BE87	55	02	0004
- 057AFC69	15
- 0B2B70B1	15
- 18AAB1CD	55	04	0004
- 1CAFC452	55	02	0004
- 00D530B9	15
- 04DB3F52	15
- 1487F7C9	55	01	0004
- 098088F5	55	01	0004
- 343790A8	55	02	0004
- 08AF9AAE	15
- 02F8956F	55	04	0003
- 0A468B80	55	02	0003
- 1ECFB4C5	15
- 455AC628	54	02	0003
- 08478852	15

- 106854F1	15
- 1186D095	15
- 42178501	55	04	0003
- 4B59C7A4	55	02	0002
- 144ABE04	55	01	0004
- 07EB85B2	55	01	0003
- 04BF6439	15
- 155B8605	55	04	0004
- 19D8B40A	15
- 08D2E613	15
- 04D70BED	55	02	0004
- 028F9734	15
- 0A698FCC	15
- 00A03EC0	15
- 18983398	15
- 12438718	15
- 0BA4DC02	15
- 091303A6	15
- 4118EFAF	15
- 1C41BF62	55	04	0002
- 1E8D2FA2	56	02	0005
- 0D499D43	15
- 1A9E1246	15
- 08D1C16B	15
- 142F3E6E	15
- 00CEAADD	13
- 0C1E6AAD	15
- 1886B7E2	55	02	0004
- 0781D207	55	04	0002

*Data are written in 24-hour blocks—each block starts at noon Greenwich time, the beginning of a new Julian day.*
*At 12.00 GMT, my computer:*
* **Stops the current data run.*
* **Starts a new data run.*
* **Cleans up the data from the previous day:*
* **Makes a backup of the original, converts from hex to **	**	**decimal, and writes events to file: one for each trigger.*

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## Online Cosmic Ray Detector:

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*Students can use the data to study flux as well as events that satisfy the decay trigger.*
*The plot shows decay candidates from the middle counter during the first several weeks of running.*

## NSF ESIE Proposal:

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* **. . . To facilitate classroom change, we will provide access to a wide variety of online instructional resources including raw datasets and primary sources, and **manipulative, interactive and physical materials. . . .*

- August, 1998

## Manipulative, Interactive and Physical Materials:

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*We have ~50 of these cosmic ray detectors in QuarkNet classrooms and will soon have >100.*

## Who Uses These Materials?

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* **Students **&** Teachers in QuarkNet classrooms - Jason Fox*
* **Teachers - Bill Lamb and Jeff Rylander*
* **University Faculty - Mike Strauss and Darin Acosta*
* **QuarkNet Nodes - Everyone @ UIC node has a detector*
*Unfortunately, we have no hard data to answer the question, only anecdotes.*

## Next Steps: 

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- Next Steps:

* **Set up and test pilots, make edits, broaden audience. *
* **Finish current batch of detectors.*
* **Investigate the value-added of the classroom detectors.*
* **If that investigation is favorable, find a way to make more.*

- T. Jordan,  Advisory Board Meeting -  November 2002