UVic ATLAS Masterclass 2025

Saturday 26 Apr 2025, 08:30 → 15:05 America/Vancouver

University of Victoria

Caleb Miller, Justin Albert (University of Victoria (CA)), Thomas Blake (University of Warwick)

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

09:00 → 09:25 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. A 20' +5' questions talk

Speaker: Branden Aitken (University of Victoria)

ActualFinalATLAS2025.pdf

SM_Presentation

• ActualFinalATLAS2025.pdf
• baryonoctet.png
• beamerthemeUVic.sty
• emdiagram.pdf
• Fig_1_new.png
• ForceDiagram.pdf
• higgsmech.png
• kaon.pdf
• main.pdf
• main.tex

09:25 → 09:45 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)

09:45 → 10:15 CERN virtual site visit (w/ Dilia Portillo Quintero)

A 20' video-visit to the ATLAS control room with TRIUMF scientist Dilia Portillo Quintero (with 10' for questions).

Link for virtual site visit with Dilia in https://indico.cern.ch/event/1535122/ .

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

10:15 → 10:25 brief 10' 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: Adrienne Scott (University of Victoria (CA))

ATLASMasterclass2025.key

ATLASMasterclass2025.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: Josephine Brewster (University of Victoria)

ATLAS_Masterclass_2025_Experiment.key

ATLAS_Masterclass_2025_Experiment.pdf

ATLAS_Masterclass_2025_Experiment_SIMPLE.pdf

11:05 → 11:30 Walk over to computer room, then talk on details of data analysis using HYPATIA

Speaker: Caleb Miller

Hypatia slide.pdf

11:30 → 12:40 Analyze data

12:40 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Discuss analysis results locally

14:00 → 14:45 Videoconference to discuss analysis results w/ TRIUMF, SFU, Berkeley, Virginia

Moderated by Max Swiatlowski (TRIUMF)

Speaker: Maximilian J Swiatlowski (TRIUMF (CA))

14:45 → 15:00 Researcher Q&A

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