# Presentation: 669694

## Cosmic e-Lab Collaboration

**Cosmic e-Lab Collaboration**
**Bob Peterson**
**Fermi National Accelerator Lab**

**Notes:**
Private talk to ‘S’s: get to listen in.

## QuarkNet overview

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**QuarkNet overview**
**QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Detector**
**	****assemble CRD hardware & take data**
**Cosmic e-Lab exploration**
**	****upload & analyze data**

## Active QuarkNet Centers

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Notes:**
QN START: PARTICLE PHYSICS
HOW BRING PARTICLES TO CLASSROOM? -->>MEASURE COSMIC RAYS

## Cosmic Rays
Sources
Composition, energy spectrum
Detection
Current experiments

**Cosmic Rays**
**Sources**
**Composition, energy spectrum**
**Detection**
**Current experiments**

**The QuarkNet Classroom Detector**
**Hardware overview**
**Classroom use**
**Experiments, measurements**

**Data Analysis**
**Upload, analyze data & save data products**
**Share results**
**Enter logbook notes**

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Paradigm: a good way to learn science?

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Paradigm: a good way to learn science****?**
**-->**** participate in data-based science**
**ask cosmic ray questions**
**marshal a research plan**
**engage hardware and technology**
**analyze realistic, not simulated data**
**share results with collaboration**

**Notes:**
QN: try to lower threshold for doing science

## 344 teachers / 348 high schools

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**344 teachers / 348 high schools**
**647 student research groups**
**over 55,000 analyses run**
**299 detectors in high schools**
**12855 data files**
**154 posters**

## QuarkNet creates a collaboration of users

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**QuarkNet creates a collaboration of users**
**Teachers ****<--->**** Students**
**Teachers ****<--->**** Mentor Scientists**
**Detector Schools ****<--->**** Non-Detector Schools**
**World-wide network: Students ****<-->**** Students**

**Notes:**
Encourage your students communicate with US students

## Sources of Cosmic Rays
Supernova remnants
Active galaxies (?)
Quasars (?)
Gamma Ray Bursters (?)

**Sources of Cosmic Rays**
**Supernova remnants**
**Active galaxies (?)**
**Quasars (?)**
**Gamma Ray Bursters (?)**

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Cosmic rays at earth
primaries (protons, nuclei)
secondaries (pions)
decay products (muons, photons, electrons)

**Cosmic rays at earth**
**primaries ****(protons, nuclei)**
**secondaries ****(pions)**
**decay products ****(muons, photons, electrons)**

- 1-2  per second

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Run: CR shower video if fast connection

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

- _[Run](javascript:showRefLink('http://astro.uchicago.edu/cosmus/projects/aires/protonshoweroverchicago.mpeg',800,600))__: CR shower video if fast connection_

## Wealth of open science questions

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Wealth of open science questions**
**Students participate in active, big science**
**QuarkNet ****-->**** not prescriptive, not recipes**
**Provide resources and analysis tools**
**Trust the teacher to guide research**

## Teachers & students
assemble
calibrate
set-up & run

**assemble**
**calibrate**
**set-up & run**

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Overview: Cosmic Ray Detector

**Overview: Cosmic Ray Detector**
**Bob Peterson**
**Fermi National Accelerator Lab**

## The QuarkNet Classroom Detector
plastic scintillator
homegrown DAQ
GPS timing

**plastic scintillator**
**homegrown DAQ**
**GPS timing**

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Teaching and Learning

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

-  **Typical QuarkNet Detector Setup**
**Counters-scintillators, **
**	****photomultiplier tubes **
**	****(two shown)**
**2. QuarkNet DAQ board**
**3. 5 VDC adapter**
**4. GPS receiver ****	**
**5. GPS extension cable**
**6. RS-232 cable (to link **
**	****to computer serial port)**
**7. Optional RS-232 to USB adapter **
**	****(to link to computer USB port **
**	****instead of serial port)**
**8. Lemo or BNC signal cables**
**9. Daisy-chained power cables**

## DAQ Hardware measures
light pulse timing
ambient temperature
atmospheric pressure

**light pulse timing**
**ambient temperature**
**atmospheric pressure**

**Experiments include**
**Flux studies**
**Time correlation **
**Shielding**
**Particle speed**
**Particle lifetime**
**Altitude attenuation**

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Teaching and Learning

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Types of counter configuration

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Types of counter configuration**
**	****1)**** array ****-->**** shower**
**	****	****counters distributed**
**	****2)**** stacked ****-->**** flux**
**	****	****counters spaced on common center**
**Determined by type of CR study**
**Student defined**

## NEXT SESSION: Breakout into small teams

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**NEXT SESSION: Breakout into small teams**
**-->**** Assemble cosmic ray detectors**
**	****	****4 counters: one team each**
**	****	****DAQ/GPS: one team**
**Tomorrow: cosmic e-Lab and UPLOAD data**

**Notes:**
Determine CRD shepherd-->AspenOne
RSP: work with AspenOne
KW: float

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**QuarkNet cosmic e-Lab Teacher Accounts**
**Email the following:**
**Name:**
**Account Name:**
**School:**
**City/Country:**
**Email:**
**To:  Bob Peterson**
**	****-->**** rspete@fnal.gov**

** **

## Explore tonight

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Explore tonight**
**Cosmic ****e-Lab**** portal:**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-lab  **
**-->****LIBRARY****-->****STUDYGUIDE**

## There has to be an easier way . . .

			cosmic e-Lab <-- tomorrow

**	****	****	****cosmic e-Lab ****<--**** tomorrow**

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Teaching and Learning

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Teaching and Learning

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Cosmic e-Lab Exploration

**Cosmic e-Lab Exploration**
**Bob Peterson**
**Fermi National Accelerator Lab**

## DAQ Hardware measures
light pulse timing
ambient temperature
atmospheric pressure

**light pulse timing**
**ambient temperature**
**atmospheric pressure**

**Experiments include**
**Flux studies**
**Time correlation **
**Shielding**
**Particle speed**
**Particle lifetime**
**Altitude attenuation**

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Raw Data

- 19262F0A 80 01 00 01 00 01 3B 01 1814BD14 053706.358 260105 A 10 0 +0365
- 19262F0B 28 01 00 01 00 01 01 2A 1814BD14 053706.358 260105 A 10 0 +0365
- 19262F0C 01 21 00 01 00 01 00 01 1814BD14 053706.358 260105 A 10 0 +0365
- 23246B23 A5 34 00 01 00 01 2E 3A 2203DEA2 053710.358 260105 A 10 0 +0366
- . . .

**Raw Data**

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

- 2453396	6341848883424871	6341848883426071	12.00

## There has to be an easier way . . .

			--> cosmic e-Lab

**	****	****	****-->**** ****cosmic e-Lab**

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

## Cosmic e-Lab portal:  

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic ****e-Lab**** portal:  **
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Login

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

- 	Username:
- 	Password:

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

**Workflow & Milestones**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Pause: live action demo

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Pause: live action demo**
**Login**
**Goto: REGISTRATION**
**Add DAQ#**
**UPLOAD data: follow me**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## ‘nother live action demo

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**‘****nother live action demo**
**PERFORMANCE study**
**What is this telling us?**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Follow upper right:   My Logbook 

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

- Follow upper right:  _ My Logbook _

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

**Notes:**
ALL PREVIOUS: STUDENT
ALSO TEACHER SIDE

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## Cosmic Ray e-Lab Tour

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

## More live action --> Examples 

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**More live action**** --> Examples**** **
**Data Search**
**Shower Analysis**
**Flux Analysis**

## Reproduce analysis: 

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Cosmic Ray e-****Lab Tour**
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov/e-labs**

**Reproduce analysis:**** **
** ****-->**** click on plot**
** ****-->**** run study again**
** ****-->**** change parameters**

**Notes:**
21 Mar 2006: need to add the type of analysis --> shower?

## Team Task: 

**Teaching and Learning**
**with Cosmic Rays**

**Team Task: **
**a) Pose a simple CR research question**
**b) Select small CR data set**
**c) Run CR Analysis**
**d) Track your progress using the LOGBOOK**
**e) Write online Poster about study with plot**
**f) Share Tutorial about the QN portal**

**Tutorial Guiding Questions:**
**How did you use the portal?**
**How would you use the CR e-Lab in your classroom?**
**How do you think students will use self-guided research?**
**What makes self-guided research beneficial?**
**Highlight one interesting feature you found in the QN e-Lab.**