Conveners
Outreach and Education: parallel talks 1
- Claire Adam Bourdarios (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
Outreach and Education: parallel talks 2
- Wolfgang Adam (HEPHY-Vienna)
Outreach and Education: parallel talks 3
- Valentyna Mokina (HEPHY)
Outreach and Education: parallel talks 4
- Claire Adam Bourdarios (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
The COST Action: "Cosmic WISPers in the Dark Universe: Theory, Astrophysics and Experiments" (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21106/) officially started on November 1st 2022. The aim of this Action is to coordinate and support WISPs searches (on axions, dark photons, etc.) in a synergic way at the boundary between particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
We introduce the Action physics...
Communicating the science goals and achievements of the ATLAS Experiment is a core objective of the ATLAS Collaboration. This talk will explore the range of communication strategies adopted. We provide an overview of ATLAS’ digital communication platforms, including its website, social media, YouTube and Virtual Visit programme. We also present material and activities designed to engage...
On June 29, a webinar was held by the IceCube Collaboration to announce the detection of the Galactic Plane in neutrinos. The leading institutions were in the US and in Germany. This is the perspective of the German institution TU Dortmund University on the preparation of the event including the production of online material, the preparation of the press conference and lessons-learned from the webinar.
Gravitational wave research exerts the fascination of Astronomy and, at the same time, stimulates the curiosity of fundamental physics on the general public: discoveries and results related to gravitational waves are often in under the spot of global communication, both on media and social media.
This has given rise to opportunities, but also to unprecedented problems, for the large...
The Pierre Auger Observatory has implemented a novel method of astroparticle detection that combines various techniques and has an open data policy. The dissemination of information about the different astroparticle detection methods, ranging from surface water Cherenkov detectors to underground scintillator detectors, is now possible due to access to specialized tools for data analysis. This...
Communication can be defined, among other things, as interactions that occur between two or more individuals. To communicate abstract concepts such as dark matter, we sought new and creative ways of engaging with diverse communities through the exploration of senses (gastronomy or art) and recreational activities (game play or design items). In this presentation, we will share specific...
We present the result of a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Donald Fortescue of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and researchers from the KM3NeT Collaboration. The project continues the successful art/science research collaboration between Fortescue and Gwenhaël De Wasseige, initiated during Fortescue’s US National Science Foundation funded residency with IceCube at...
Virgo, hosted at the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) is one of the most important observatories and cutting-edge physics experiments in Europe, but it is also a popular “touristic” destination, visited every year by over 10.000 people.
Virgo is first and foremost an active laboratory, where more than one hundred scientists are at work every day to do frontier physics. How can it also...
Cosmic rays are energetic, subatomic particles constantly reaching the Earth atmosphere from all directions. Several technological tools currently available can be used to introduce the students to research activities in the particle physics field.
The Legnaro National Laboratories (LNL) of the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) hosts a muon telescope formed by plastic...
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) project was born to include scientific, outreach and educational purposes.
It is designed to detect and study high energy cosmic rays through the detection of the shower’s muon component through several muon telescopes based on Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC) synchronized by GPS. The telescopes are organized in local clusters and single telescope...
The IPPOG collaboration celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2022: initiated at CERN in the early days of LHC, it now counts 33 countries around the globe, 6 scientific collaborations and 3 international laboratories. Looking back at the activities, there is an increased connection between collider and astro-particle physics outreach communities. This synergy is expected to benefit both...
Masterclasses are one-day outreach events for high school students, introducing them to topics of current research. Within the framework of the EU project ChETEC-INFRA, Masterclasses on Nuclear Astrophysics have been developed. This interdisciplinary field of science provides a new didactic perspective on nuclear and astrophysical processes by addressing the link between these two subjects....
International Masterclasses - hands-on particle physics (IMC) is an annual programme for high school students organized by the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) in collaboration with universities and research centres around the globe. In a single day, the students are fully immersed in the activities and challenges of modern research. From morning lectures to afternoon...
DARK is an INFN outreach activity related to gravitation, dark matter and dark energy. Three main activities were performed during the recent years. For high school students we performed since 2020 the Dark Matter Masterclasses, including theory and experimental introduction to dark matter, an exercise based on the DarkSide-50 experiment simulation and theory and an exercise related to the...
Since 1983 the Italian groups collaborating with Fermilab (US) have been running a 2-month summer training program for Master students. While in the first year the program involved only 4 physics students, in the following years it was extended to engineering students. Many students have extended their collaboration with Fermilab with their Master Thesis and PhD.
The program has involved...
This project aims at developing a low-cost open-hardware alternative to commercial temperature controllers with parts costing less than 100U$S that meets the performance parameters for diverse applications. As a demonstrator, we used a 40W output power version to regulate the temperature at (130+/-0.5)K in different scientific CCD testing stations equipped with cryocoolers with unregulated...
The KM3NeT neutrino detectors are currently under construction at two locations in the Mediterranean Sea and starting to produce valuable data both for the astrophysics and neutrino physics communities. Having committed itself to an Open Science policy, the KM3NeT collaboration is establishing a system to facilitate data sharing, open software development and integration of KM3NeT analyses in...
