UVic ATLAS Masterclass 2024

Saturday 27 Apr 2024, 08:30 → 14:05 America/Vancouver

University of Victoria

Caleb Miller, Justin Albert (University of Victoria (CA))

08:30 → 09:00 Arrival, have donuts & coffee, get name tags etc!

09:00 → 09:30 Introduction to the Standard Model of Fundamental Physics

Very basics of elementary particles and the Standard Model (with just the tiniest touch of very-intro cosmology), at a level for eager high school students.

Speaker: Mr Takahiro Uzu (University of Victoria)

09:30 → 10:00 CERN virtual site visit (w/ Dilia Portillo Quintero)

Questions for Taka (and Caleb and me) for 10' or so; then a 15' video-visit to the ATLAS control room with TRIUMF scientist Dilia Portillo Quintero (with 5' for questions).

Speaker: Dilia Maria Portillo Quintero (TRIUMF (CA))

direct Zoom link for CERN virtual visit (w/ Dr. Dilia Portillo Quintero, TRIUMF staff member)

Indico Zoom link for CERN virtual visit (w/ Dr. Dilia Portillo Quintero, TRIUMF staff member)

10:00 → 10:20 Very basics of accelerator physics and the CERN accelerator complex

A 15' + 5' questions talk on very-basics of accelerator physics, with a map of the accelerator complex on the CERN site, and the paths that the protons take.

Speaker: Mr Daniel Hedji (University of Victoria)

10:20 → 10:25 Very brief 5' break

10:25 → 10:45 Very basics of the ATLAS detector

A 15' + 5' questions talk on the very-basics of the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Maheyer Jamshed Shroff (University of Victoria (CA))

atlas_master_class.pdf

10:45 → 11:05 Very basics of experimental particle physics (special relativity, invariant masses, etc)

A 15' + 5' questions talk on the very-basics of experimental particle physics (invariant masses and plots thereof, etc).

Speaker: Alexandre Beaubien

ExperimentalOverview.pdf

11:05 → 11:25 Walk over to computer room, then talk on details of data analysis using HYPATIA

Speakers: Adrienne Jean Scott (University of Victoria (CA)), Charlie Chen (University of Victoria (CA))

hypatia_tutorial_master_class_27042024.pdf

11:15 → 12:10 Analyze data

12:10 → 12:45 Lunch

12:45 → 13:00 Discuss analysis results locally

13:00 → 13:45 Videoconference to discuss analysis results w/ TRIUMF, SFU, Berkeley, Virginia

Moderated by Max Swiatlowski (TRIUMF)

Speaker: Maximilian J Swiatlowski (TRIUMF (CA))

Zoom link for videoconference w/ TRIUMF, SFU, Berkeley, Virginia

13:45 → 14:00 Researcher Q&A

Speakers: Caleb Miller, Justin Albert (University of Victoria (CA))