# Presentation: 381173

## CMS and QuarkNet
Thomas Jordan
Fermilab
jordant@fnal.gov        
http://quarknet.fnal.gov

**Thomas Jordan**
**Fermilab**
**jordant@fnal.gov        **
**http://quarknet.fnal.gov**

**Principal Investigators**
**M. Bardeen, FNAL**
**R.M. Barnett, LBNL**
**K. Baker, Hampton**
**R. Ruchti, Notre Dame**** **

**Staff**
**K. Cecire, Hampton**
**A. Erzberger, LBNL**
**T. Jordan, FNAL**
**P. Mooney, Notre Dame**

## CMS and QuarkNet

**QuarkNet - a physics Ponzi scheme****....**
- 				FermiNews - 21 July, 2000
**With legitimate funding from the:**
**	****US National Science Foundation**
**	****US Department of Energy**

## CMS and QuarkNet

**The scheme:**
**Find 60 research centers interested in  joining the effort**
**	****Each of those centers:**
- Invites local physics teachers to participate in particle physics experiments.
- Connects teachers with physicists near their schools.
- Forms small, local groups of teachers that are interested in improving their teaching and learning more physics.
- Helps to develop classroom materials that allow those teachers to teach classical physics using particle physics examples.

## CMS and QuarkNet

**What does this mean from **
**	****	****	****	****the center’s frame?**
- Two mentor physicists volunteer, find local teachers and seek appropriate work.
- Summer (XX) - two teachers assist in research work (8 weeks.)
- Following Academic Year - teachers and mentors collaborate.
- Summer (XX+1) - twelve teachers participate in a three-week workshop planned and delivered by the local center.

## CMS and QuarkNet

**An Example:**
**The Iowa Group**
**	****Mentors: Nural Akchurin, John Hauptman**
**	****Lead Teachers: Pete Bruecken, Jeff Dilks**** ****	****	**

## CMS and QuarkNet

**An Example:**
**Iowa - an inaugural QuarkNet group**
**The teachers and mentors:**
- worked together for an eight-week term that started in June of 1999.
- designed and constructed a forward calorimeter prototype.
- traveled to CERN and placed that prototype in a test-beam.
- continued to study the data during the academic year, collaborating via e-mail and periodic meetings.

## CMS and QuarkNet

**An Example:**
**Iowa - an inaugural QuarkNet group**
**The group also arranged a three-week workshop for 10 additional Iowa teachers.**
- They:
- 		recruited the teachers.
- 		sought dormitory space.
- 		prepared materials and activities.
- 		sought extra funding from local sources.
- 		hosted that workshop in June of 2000.

## CMS and QuarkNet

- We expect to collaborate with:
- 	60 Research institutions
- 		120 Lead teachers
- 			600 Associate teachers
- _Program Year __(Calendar Year)_ 	_Numbers_ (totals)
- Year One (1999 - 2000) 		12 Research groups
- 	 			23 Lead teachers
- Year Two (2000 - 2001)		13 Additional groups (25)
- 				26 Lead teachers (49)
- 				107 Associate teachers
- Years Three-Five (2001-2004)		12 Additional groups per year (60)
- 				24 Lead teachers per year (120)
- 				120 Associate teachers per year (600)

## CMS and QuarkNet

**Centers involved in **
_**	**__**QuarkNet and CMS**_**	****	**** ****	**_**Mentors**_
- Florida State University			H. Prosper, H. Wahl
- Iowa State University			J. Hauptman
- Northeastern University			D. Wood
- University of California (Riverside)	J. Layter
- University of Florida			D. Acosta, G. Mitselmakher
- University of Illinois (Chicago) 		M. Adams
- University of Iowa			N. Akchurin
- University of Notre Dame		R. Ruchti
- University of Rochester			K. McFarland

## CMS and QuarkNet

- We have started our third program year.
- 	How can you get involved?
- Expression of Interest (via web)		7 October, 2000
- Visit and discussion			October, 2000
- Proposal (via web)			4 November, 2000
- Notification 				13 November, 2000
- Teachers identified			31 January, 2001
- Teacher Workshop (@Snowmass)		early July, 2001
- http://quarknet.fnal.gov