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The European Particle Physics Outreach Group (EPPOG) has created the Masterclass, an opportunity for students to discover the world of quarks and leptons with real data from the Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP).
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is scheduled to begin operations in 2009. The LHC has detectors that scientists have designed to detect evidence of the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson is theorized to quickly decay into Z bosons, which have several possible decay scenarios. Understanding the decay of Z bosons will be key in definitively identifying Higgs boson events.
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To learn more about how the US Masterclass works, visit the Masterclass Institute pages linked above. To keep up with the latest information, scroll down and read below.
All U.S. Masterclass Institutes have earned at least a conditional pass on their EVO Tests. Most have passed fully. Check your EVO situation at http://cosm.hamptonu.edu/vlhc/doku.php?id=wiki:start:wkshp:mcwg:evo:status. Well done, U.S. Masterclass Institutes!
The Masterclass at Fermilab, an event for teachers and students local to Fermilab, is coming on Saturday, February 21. Teachers and students will spend the day at Fermilab, go through the Masterclass, and then have an in-house scientific conference. Information is available on the new Masterclass Library at http://www.quarknet.us/library/index.php/Masterclass_at_Fermilab.
Meanwhile…the Level 2 Evaluation pre-test is almost ready. There is still time to join in the Level 2 Evaluation: just e-mail Ken Cecire.
Wondering about resources, or the schedule, or what's for lunch? You may find an answer on a new feature - the US Masterclass FAQ. If you don't find your question, e-mail it in and it might get posted there!
Congratulations to the following sites for successfully passing their EVO Tests:
12 sites participated in the EVO Tests on 12-16 January 2009; those which have not fully passed found technical issues to be resolved before the Make-up EVO Tests in February. The next and final round of EVO Tests has been moved back and will take place 24-26 February 2009. The schedule for these tests can be found on the EVO connections page; all Masterclass Institutes which have no yet fully passed an EVO test must schedule an EVO test by sending an e-mail with their first 2 choices for test day and time.
US Masterclass Institutes, arranged by Date and Time of Videoconference
| Date | Time (CT) | Institute | No. of Teachers | No. of Students | Contact | Masterclass Exercise |
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| Mon 23 Mar | 10:00 | Hampton/Richmond | 1 | 10 | Vassilis Vassilikopoulos | LHC |
| Mon 23 Mar | 10:00 | Notre Dame | 2 | 10 | Beth Marchant | LHC |
| Mon 23 Mar | 10:00 | Cincinnati | 1 | 18 | Brian Meadows | LHC |
| Mon 23 Mar | 10:00 | UC London | Mario Campanelli | LHC | ||
| Tue 24 Mar | 15:00 | Gainesville | 2 | 15 | Tom Jordan | LEP |
| Tue 24 Mar | 15:00 | Irvine/LA | 6 | 75 | Mu-Chun Chen | LEP |
| Tue 24 Mar | 15:00 | Lawrence | 20 | Phil Baringer | LEP | |
| Wed 25 Mar | w/CERN | Riverside | 1 | 20 | Bill Gary | LEP |
| Thu 26 Mar | 15:00 | Argonne | 6 | Bob Wagner | LEP | |
| Thu 26 Mar | 15:00 | Brookhaven | 2 | 15 | Helio Takai | LEP |
| Thu 26 Mar | 15:00 | College Park | 3 | 25 | Jordan Goodman | LEP |
| Fri 27 Mar | w/CERN | Brookhaven | 2 | 15 | Helio Takai | LEP |
| Fri 27 Mar | 10:00 | Hampton | 1 | 20 | Vassilis Vassilikopoulos | LEP |
| Fri 27 Mar | 10:00 | New Brunswick | 5 | 20 | Steve Schnetzer | LEP |
| Fri 27 Mar | 10:00 | Wien | 0 | 21 | Laurenz Widhalm | LEP |
| Fri 27 Mar | 15:00 | Baltimore - JHU | 4 | 20 | Morris Swartz | LHC |
| Fri 27 Mar | 15:00 | Mayaguez | 4 | 20 | Hector Mendez | LHC |
| Fri 27 Mar | 15:00 | Tallahassee | Horst Wahl | LHC | ||
| Sat 28 Mar | 14:30 | Bloomington | 5 | 25 | Rick Van Kooten | LEP |
| Sat 28 Mar | 14:30 | Boston | George Alverson | LEP | ||
| Sat 28 Mar | 14:30 | Buffalo | 2 | 9 | Ia Iashvili | LEP |
| Sat 28 Mar | 14:30 | West Lafayette | 10 | 6 | Daniela Bortoletto | LEP |
| Sat 28 Mar | 16:00 | Arlington | 5 | 15 | Andy White | LEP |
| Sat 28 Mar | 16:00 | Oxford | Lucien Cremaldi | LEP | ||
| Sat 28 Mar | 16:00 | Minneapolis | 3 | 21 | Dan Cronin-Hennessey | LEP |
| Sat 28 Mar | no vcon | Houston | 3 | 25 | Robert DuBois | LHC |
For a more complete resource list, go to the Resources page.
I've been to the school a few times and the CRD is still churning out good data (as the Perf. Studies show). I try to walk 2-3 miles while I'm there and kill two birds with one stone.
Mike