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Attracting High School Student Participation in
Particle Physics Research Helene Dauerty St
Josephs HS/Univ. of Notre Dame
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QuarkNet
A national program that partners high school
teachers with particle physicists working at the
energy frontier in hadron collider physics. High
school students are attracted into involvement
through contact with teachers.
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Vision

• Give teachers a partnership in the research
  associated with the experiments.
• Reach into high schools through classroom
  transfer.
• Work for geographic and cultural balance.
• Operate the program for an extended period of
  time so that it can have impact (gt5yr).

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If You Build It...
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...They Will Come!
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Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
Fermilab
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Notre Dame QuarkNet Center

• Vision
• A community of researchers including faculty,
  postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students
  and high school teachers and high school
  students.
• Location
• 929 N. Eddy Street, just south of campus.
• A fully functional research lab.
• Serves CMS, DØ experiments.
• Houses office, lab spaces, and student
  experimental areas.
• SBIR program on scintillator development.
• Cosmic Ray Detector Development.

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QuarkNet Collaboration
Teachers
Physicists
Students
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D. Sadawi and D. Wiand working on CMS HCAL project
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ND QuarkNet Center - Staff

• Mentors
• Jim Bishop
• Dan Karmgard
• Randy Ruchti
• Mitch Wayne
• QuarkNet Staff
• Pat Mooney
• CMS/DØ Staff
• Barry Baumbaugh
• Jeff Marchant
• Mark Vigneault
• Administration
• Jennifer Maddox

• Lead Teachers
• LeRoy Castle, La Porte
• Dale Wiand, Adams
• Associate Teachers
• Ken Andert, LaLumiere
• Beth Beiersdorf, LaSalle
• Jeff Chorny, LakeShore
• Helene Dauerty, St. Joseph
• Maggie Jensen, Gavit
• Tom Loughran, Trinity
• Kevin Johnston, Jimtown
• Rick Roberts, Clay

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Teachers Meeting
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QuarkNet Staff and Teachers
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High School Students
High School Students

• 1999
• D. Dickerson, Adams
• D. Saddawi, Adams
• 2000 (45 Applicants)
• R. Bhavsar, Adams
• R. Bourke, LaLumiere
• M. Busk, Trinity
• Z. Clark, Jimtown
• P. Davenport, Trinity

• A. DeCelles, Trinity
• N. Garg, Clay
• J. Martin, Clay
• S. May, Adams
• G. Outlaw, LaSalle
• R. Ribeiro, Trinity
• R. Smith, Jimtown
• J. Tristano, LaLumiere
• K. Whitaker, LaSalle
• R. Wiltfong, Riley

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QuarkNet Students - Summer 00
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ND QuarkNet Summer 2000
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Student Schedule
Morning Shift 730am-100pm Afternoon Shift
1200pm-530pm work at QuarkNet Lab or Nieuwland
Science Hall Luncheon interactive physics
discussions and/or seminars 1200pm-100pm At
QuarkNet Lab discussions Karmgard, Mooney,
Ruchti seminars Bigi, Cushing, Hildreth,
Konigsberg (UFL), Lynker (IUSB), Wayne
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DØ Experiment - Making Fiber-optic Waveguide
Bundles
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Wayne Seminar
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Konigsberg Seminar
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Fermilab
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Faculty Fermi Trip Summer 00
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QuarkNet Picnic Summer 2000
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School Year Participation

• Classroom transfer of Particle Physics
• Field trips
• Fermilab
• Notre Dame QuarkNet Center
• Science Alive!

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Particle Physics - the Energy Frontier
A key equation E2 p2c2 m2c4
New Physics Higgs Bosons Supersymmetry String
Theory Hidden Dimensions
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Adams HS visit to ND QuarkNet Center
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LaSalle HS Visit to Fermilab/D0
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Science Alive
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The Future

• Tevatron Run II Data Analysis
• Student Webcasts of Run II Activities
• CERN-Building optical detector units (ODUs) for
  Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), run scheduled to
  start in 2005

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CMS Experiment at LHC CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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