15th IPPOG Meeting in Polo Fibonacci (Pisa) and EGO-Virgo (Cascina)

19 Apr 2018, 07:55 → 21 Apr 2018, 19:00 Europe/Berlin

Other Institutes

H.P. Beck (Universitaet Bern (CH)), Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))

Please indicate if you will join us for dinner thursday/friday and your choice of menu HERE

The IPPOG Spring Meeting 2018 will be held from 19 to 21 April 2017 in Polo Fibonacci (Pisa) and EGO-Virgo (Cascina). The agenda is currently under development.

The meeting will be hosted on Thursday and Saturday by INFN-Pisa and Departiment of Physics of the University of Pisa at Building C of "Polo Didattico Fibonacci” and on Friday at EGO-Virgo (transportation will be provided from Pisa to EGO).

Note that meetings will end at lunch time on Saturday. A walking tour of Pisa will likely be organized on Saturday afternoon, starting at 14:30 and lasting about three hours.

 

We propose PANEL topics.

1. Broadening the physics scope of Masterclasses (Conveners: Ken Cecire and Uta Bilow)
2. Communication Platforms and Strategy (Convener: Steven Goldfarb)
3. Diversity in Science and Technology (Convener: Alberto Ruiz Jimeno)

And WORKING GROUP discussions:

1. WG on Bringing Masterclasses to New Countries (Conveners: Ken Cecire and Uta Bilow)
2. WG on Explaining Particle Physics Hot Topics to a Lay Audience (Convener: Thomas Naumann)
3. WG on Exhibits (Convener: Catia Peduto)

 

 

Report_15th_IPPOG_meeting_PisaCascina.pdf

Thursday 19 April

Closed session Masterclasses Steering Group

http://indico.cern.ch/event/722469/

Conveners: Kenneth William Cecire (University of Notre Dame (US)), Uta Bilow (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

Closed session Global Cosmics Steering Group -

Convener: Marjorie Bardeen (Fermilab)

Agenda Global Cosmics Steering Committee .docx

Agenda Global Cosmics Steering Committee .pdf

Birmingham-update.pdf

EEE-update.pdf

GC Web Requirements.docx

IPPOG_Pisa_v2.pptx

kwozniak_credo_status_2018_04_19.pdf

News_ICD_CosmicatWeb.pdf

QNet-Taiwan_Update.pdf

Global Cosmic Steering Committee

April 19, 2018

Meeting Summary

Prepared by M. Bardeen

Participants

Krzysztof Wozniak, CREDO; Carolin Schwerdt, ICD  & Teichenwelt; Marcello Abbrescia & Rosario Nania, EEE; Sabine Hemmer, INFN Padua; Charles Timmermans, HISPARC; Mark Adams & Marge Bardeen, QuarkNet & IMW.

We plan to have two videoconference/year to prepare for annual events and follow up with the projects between the spring IPPOG meetings.

We decided to continue to hold a steering group meeting at the spring IPPOG meeting. In addition, Carolin will hold a videoconference sometime in September to kick off International Cosmic Day and hear from other projects, and Mark will hold a videoconference in January to kick off International Muon Week and hear from other projects.

Reports on International Cosmic Day (ICD) and International Muon Week (IMW)

ICD - https://icd.desy.edu (Caro)

A one-day event usually in November brings astroparticle physics outreach and education projects together from national partners all over the world. Students use their own detectors. ICD provides:

Registration webpage

Suggested agenda

Template for proceedings - zenith angle measurement

Student certificates

Proceeding booklet

Videoconferences  -  1 each in Asia, Europe and America

In 2017 there were 1550 students in 89 groups from 12 countries. It was the first year that EEE participated with more than 550 students from 47 schools gathering at 9 meeting points. Padua had 200 students, but they could not participate in the videoconference. Experiments such as IceCube and ATLAS can present their data on zenith angle dependence to students. Carolin welcomes suggestions for experiments to participate.

 

IMW-  IMW participants  (Mark)

A one-week opportunity for students to take data for several days during the week and share with peers from all over the world. Sites are eligible for a video conference the following week.

IMW provides:

Registration webpage

Measurements: Historically muon flux; this year added muon speed.

Upload website

Videoconferences to discuss results

12 sites participated when the number is usually around 45. Why? The muon speed measurement required more student interaction with the detectors as well as a more complicated analysis.  EEE schools still plan contribute to the muon speed results even though they were given short notice this year.  Mark welcomes suggestions for additional themes for IMW next year and hopes to increase Global Cosmics participation.

 

 

Discussion:

Communication is an issue. It takes time to organize these events both for the projects and local sites. Since these are held annually, organizers can get the word out early to everyone. People learned about IMW too late. EEE communicated with students and hopes to have them present something in May. It is exciting for students to present findings in English.

Some issues revolve around managing the length of the event, engagement with a large number of people, and how to upload material. Can we improve overlap between ICD and IMW? Are they too complementary?

DESY had as many as 12 participants in one videoconference. That was too many. Should they offer more? The model of a videoconference where only one person is talking at a time does not optimize engagement. There is also a language problem. Another suggestion would be to use this time for the students to prepare their report for the booklet.

IMW was held one week earlier and included a speed of muon measurement that may have been too challenging. This could have been the reason for fewer participants. Also, the announcement to IPPOG Global Cosmics members was later than the one for the QuarkNet members. Some felt it was not too difficult to measure speed of muon but took time to set up. 

 

Project Updates

In addition to written updates from John Wilson at U Birmingham and For QuarkNet Taiwan, we had the following verbal reports:

Cosmic@Web Portal -  http://cosmicatweb.desy.de (Caro)

Online platform for evaluation of data from experiments that measure particles 24/7. Includes introduction, experiment descriptions, data description, glossary and plotting tool.

Soon available in English. A dataset is provided which enables participation in ICD.

Netzwerk Teilchenwelt -  http://www.teilchenwelt.de (Caro)

Scientific coordination of a German network with 20 intuitions, 50 scintillator detectors. Students can come to the institute or teachers can bring detector to their school. The idea is that students should have their own “scientific” work. They can use the QuarkNet e-lab but use their own laptop. We also have astroparticle masterclasses with Pierre Auger or IceCube data.

 

CREDO -  https://credo.science (Krzysztof)

Our motivation is to measure correlated air showers registered at large areas. We look for coincidences for global phenomena and are willing to include data from other projects. (Mark needs to follow up regarding QuarkNet data.) Currently, there are 1,106 users (not all active) and 141 teams who have made 608,000 detections, mostly noise.

We are starting a new project to create comic ray detectors with smart phones. The smart phones seem to be a good device or starting point. We are also developing analysis tools on our webpage, “the Dark Universe.” A detector app is available for Android, with iPhone coming in English.

We are also working with Cosmic Watch (Cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu), a do-it-yourself detector for <$100. A base plus 5 watches would give precision of ~10ns and cost $350. The software is open source with license from MIT. The rate is 1/hour as the sensors are not very big. We are working on the challenge of distinguishing signal from background.

EU Horizon 2020 – Citizen Science agenda - We are preparing to send a proposal next year. It is now based on the smart phone and the involvement of the citizens using the Dark Universe website, but we are open for suggestions.

 

EEE -­ https://eee.centrofermi.it (Marcello)  

The Project Extreme Energy Events - Science inside Schools (EEE), is a special research activity about the origin of cosmic rays, performed in collaboration with CERN, INFN and MIUR and carried out with the essential contribution of high school teachers and students. At CERN teachers and students have built 52 of the 54-57 current detectors. About 50 physicists  and 104 high schools with about 200 teachers and 2000 students participate each year. We are making an upgrade adding 20 stations. We have collected more than 65 billion events. Data are sent to INFN-CNAF for analysis. Many studies are ongoing, and several results have been published in scientific journals.

Local schools with detectors have a responsibility to organize day-by-day telescope data taking and monitoring. Schools without telescopes are paired with schools with telescopes. A special agreement between Centro Fermi and the schools makes all these activities fall in the Alternating School and Work protocol of the Italian Ministry for Education. Monthly Vidyo meetings keep schools informed on the progress of the experiment. Schools from Albania and Russia have taken part at CERN with detector construction as their CERN visit coincided with Italian school visits. In May and December 2017, two conferences were held at Erice, Sicily. Each conference had about 150 teachers and students from 45 schools. In May students measured the radius of the Earth, and in December they studied the variation of flux with altitude.

A recent agreement with the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain started a collaboration to use the EEE data to correlate cosmic rays with atmosphere properties.

During July-August, the PolarQuest2018 mission will follow the route of the ITALIA airship to the North Pole, 90 years after its crash. Running a small detector made by scintillators will measure the cosmic ray flex at high latitude during this trip by small ship. Students from Italy, Switzerland and Norway will build three detectors at CERN. Detectors will also be in Norway and Italy in order to allow a simultaneous measurement of the cosmic-rays flux over almost forty latitude degrees.  

 

HISPARC - http://www.hisparc.nl/en/ (Charles)

HiSPARC is a project in which secondary schools and academic institutions join forces and form a network to measure cosmic rays with extremely high energy. There are detectors at around 100 schools. All our data is publically available. HiSPARC mainly provides modules for the regular curriculum in Dutch high schools. However, the RouteNet material has been translated to be suitable for British high schools. We are developing a Cherenkov detector with which students can experiment using different detector mediums. They do this as an introduction to the rooftop detector array.

           

QuarkNet - https://quarknet.org (Mark)

Cosmic Ray e-Lab - http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/home/project.jsp

QuarkNet has hundreds of detectors with 4-scintillator packages and an e-Lab to provide the online environment in which students experience the excitement of scientific collaboration. Any teacher can have an account and set up accounts for his or her students. Students design their own experiments, take data and upload data to the e-Lab. They can use data from other students in their experiments. Data is open and available on the e-lab. There are analysis tools for a performance study to check the detector and then flux, shower, muon lifetime and time of flight studies.

2017 Solar Eclipse Project - If you are not using your detector this year, would you like a reason to put it back online and have students use it for education purposes? The eclipse event created a lot of interest. Nobody had done this experiment before. Nature provided an off-on “switch” to any cosmic rays from the sun. We took data from 56 detectors prepared by 48 QuarkNet groups. Students designed 3 detectors: there were 4 tracking telescopes, over 20 fixed-angle telescopes and the rest were vertically stacked. Students had to design the detectors to cost no more than $100 from materials available at a hardware store. Students did a lot of background studies to compare rates during eclipse under different conditions. The experiment saw no change in rate in the sun’s direction at the 3% level.

12:30 Lunch

IPPOG Open Session - chair Hans Peter Beck and Steven Goldfarb

1 Welcome and Opening by IPPOG chairs and Local Organizers

Speakers: Hans Peter Beck (Universitaet Bern (CH)), Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))

2 Welcome from director of Physics Department of the University of Pisa

Speaker: Ettore Vicari

3 Welcome from director of INFN-Pisa

Speaker: Marco Grassi

4 IPPOG News

Speaker: Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))

GoldfarbNews-20170416.pdf

GoldfarbNews-20170416.pptx

5 Report Masterclasses

Speakers: Kenneth William Cecire (University of Notre Dame (US)), Uta Bilow (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

2018_04_pisa_imc-report.pdf

2018_04_pisa_imc-report.pptx

6 Report on Global Cosmic Steering Group

Speaker: Marjorie Bardeen (Fermilab)

15:30 Coffee break

IPPOG Open Session - chair Hans Peter Beck and Steven Goldfarb

7 Inside View from IPPOG

8 Inspiring Success Stories

9 Countries, Experiments and Labs highlights

Working groups discussions

Working groups can discuss longer if needed. Everybody is free to choose the coffee and lunch times flexibly.

20:00 Dinner

PLEASE INDICATE IF YOU WILL JOIN US FOR DINNER PRIOR TO MEETING FOLLOWING THIS LINK: https://docs.google.com/form/d/e/1FAIpQLScn80YkB0QuQ6B6OV3PaCEEn0mv9eCIf8rgo29x2vZlYVM3Xw/viewform

At your own cost. No fixed menu.

Friday 20 April

09:00 Bus pick up for - EGO TRIP - BE ON TIME AS WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WAIT FOR LATE COMERS!

The bus shuttle of the company DONATI Trasporti will stop in two different locations of Pisa on Friday April 20, 2018 before coming to the site of EGO-Virgo.

The first stop will be at 09:00 am sharp in Via Andrea Pisano nr. 11, at the adjacent home gates (see picture below). It is a 6-minute walk from the hotel Villa Kinzica, passing along the wonderful ‘Piazza dei Miracoli’.

The second stop will be at 09:10 am sharp in Lungarno Gambarcorti at the bus stop ‘Gambacorti 2’ NOTE THE BUS WILL HAVE THE LOGO "DONATI". The stop is 200m away from the hotel Bologna that is located in via G.Mazzini, 57.

FOR MORE INFO, LOOK AT THE VENUES WEBPAGE

IPPOG session 1: Working groups report

10 Report WG on Bringing Masterclasses to New Countries

Speakers: Kenneth William Cecire (University of Notre Dame (US)), Uta Bilow (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

Gooogle slides

MC2NC WG Report.pdf

MC2NC WG Report.pptx

11 Report WG on Explaining Particle Physics Hot Topics to a Lay Audience

Speaker: Thomas Naumann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

IPPOG Pisa Physics to lay audience.pdf

IPPOG Pisa Physics to lay audience.pptx

12 Report WG on Exhibits

Speakers: Catia Peduto (INFN), Emma Sanders (CERN)

WG_exhibits_IPPOG_Pisa.pdf

WG_exhibits_IPPOG_Pisa.pptx

Panels Preparation

Panel_Diversity.pdf

11:15 coffee

Panels Preparation

IPPOG Session 2

13 Outreach in schools in Italy

Speaker: Giorgio Chiarelli (INFN Sezione di Pisa,)

chiarelli-ippog.pdf

chiarelli-ippog.pptx

14 Updates on the Shower of knowledge project

Speaker: Victoria Tokareva (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

IPPOG_EAS_update.pdf

15 EPPSU: Open call to all members of the particle physics community

The CERN Council has set itself the objective of updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics by May 2020. To achieve this, it has established a Strategy Secretariat to which it has assigned the task of organising the update process.The Strategy update process will include two major events: an “Open Symposium” and a “Strategy Drafting Session”. At the Open Symposium, to be held in the second half of May 2019, the community will be invited to debate the scientific input into the Strategy update, which will take the form of a “Briefing Book”. This will be prepared over the summer of 2019 by a Physics Preparatory Group (PPG) and submitted to the European Strategy Group (ESG) for consideration before and during its Strategy Drafting Session to be held in the second half of January 2020. To prepare the Open Symposium, the Strategy Secretariat hereby calls upon the particle physics community in universities, laboratories, national institutes and institutions to submit written input following the enclosed guidelines.

The deadline for input is 18 December 2018.

Speaker: Pedro Abreu (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)

EPPSU CERN Council page

EPPSU_CouncilDoc2013.pdf

EPPSU_Launch_Discussion.pdf

EPPSU_Launch_Discussion.pptx

Strategy_Report.pdf

WG5-statement-V3.pdf

13:35 Lunch

IPPOG Session 3 - Visitors Welcome - chair Nicolas Arnaud

16 Welcome from the EGO director

Speaker: Stavros KATSANEVAS (CNRS/IN2P3)

17 Welcome from the Virgo Spokesperson

Speaker: Jo van den Brand

18 IPPOG Presentation

Speaker: Hans Peter Beck (Universitaet Bern (CH))

IPPOG Pisa 20 Apr 2018.key.pdf

19 Outreach at Virgo

Speaker: Severine Perus (European Gravitational Observatory)

Outreach IPPOG April20.pdf

Outreach IPPOG April20.pptx

20 Outreach at LIGO

Speakers: Amber Henry (LIGO lab (Hanford)), Cathy Holt (LIGO lab (Livingston)), Martin Hendry (LIGO)

IPPOG_hendry.pdf

IPPOG_hendry.pptx

21 Open Discussion

• similarities and differences between HEP and GW outreach
• what can we learn from each other
• how can we help each other
• can we work on common projects
• how to keep in touch on the long term

16:30 Coffee

22 Site visit

Guides: Valerio Boschi (EGO), Irene Fiori (EGO)

Overview of the Virgo site

Group picture

18:15 Bus back to PISA

20:00 IPPOG official dinner and "spiral toast"!

PLEASE INDICATE YOUR CHOICE OF MEAL PRIOR TO MEETING FOLLOWING THIS LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn80YkB0QuQ6B6OV3PaCEEn0mv9eCIf8rgo29x2vZlYVM3Xw/viewform

Menu 01 (Terra)
Small eggplant parmigiana
Asparagus pie with soup of Tuscan bread and tomato
Home-made fresh pasta with white meat, black pepper and lemon
Deboned rabbit stuffed with aromatic herbs from Monte Pisa, potato millefeuille and mixed salad
Basket pie with chantilly cream and strawberries

Menu 02 (Mare)
Gratin of anchovies and donut of whitebait fish
Ravioli stuffed with burrata cheese and prawn tails, zucchini and their flowers
Fish of the day baked in the oven with potatoes, cherry tomatoes and olives
Semi-frozen cake of raspberries with gin

Menu 03 (Vegetarian)
Small eggplant parmigiana
Asparagus pie with soup of Tuscan bread and tomato
Pasta “Pacchero di Gragnano” with zucchini and their flowers
Tofu crumble with artichokes
Dessert

Saturday 21 April

IPPOG Session 4: Panels report -

23 Centro Fermi and EEE

Speakers: Luisa Cifarelli-Strolin (Dipartimento di Fisica), Rosario Nania (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)), Rosario Nania (Universita e INFN (IT))

EEE-IPPOG-Pisa2018.pdf

EEE-IPPOG-Pisa2018.pptx

24 Masterclass “upgrades” and Open Data

Speaker: Yiota Foka (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

MasterclassUpgradesAndOpenData.pdf

25 Report Panel: Broadening the physics scope of Masterclasses

Speakers: Kenneth William Cecire (University of Notre Dame (US)), Uta Bilow (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

26 Report Panel: Communication Platforms and Strategy

Speaker: Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))

GoldfarbCommunication-20170420.pdf

GoldfarbCommunication-20170420.pptx

Web Structure Proposal from Fall

27 Report Panel: Diversity in Science and Technology

Speaker: Alberto Ruiz Jimeno (Universidad de Cantabria (ES))

Panel_Diversity.pdf

28 Closing Remarks

18-04-21-FinalRemarks.pdf

18-04-21-FinalRemarks.pptx

10:30 Coffee break

IPPOG Collaboration Board Meeting

http://indico.cern.ch/event/722411/

4th_IPPOG_CB_meeting.pdf

4th_IPPOG_CB_meeting.pptx

29 Welcome and introduction to CB matters

30 Adoption of the agenda and establishing the quorum

31 Open Call for European Strategy Update

Definition of IPPOG contribution to the Open Call by the European Strategy Update. Attached the guidelines for providing input and the Detailed plan for the organisation of the
update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics from
https://cds.cern.ch/collection/SPC%20-%20Scientific%20Policy%20Committee?ln=en

32 New members and addendum

33 Financial Report

34 Next IPPOG meeting

35 AOB

14:30 Tour of Pisa -- Sightseeing tour (no visit to interiors), in English - 2.30 pm in Piazza dei Cavalieri

The appointment is scheduled for 2.30 pm in Piazza dei Cavalieri, in front of the Normal School. The name of the guide is Vicenzo Riolo (phone number 328 144 68 55)

The so called 'Field fo Miracles' and the Square of the Knights of St. Stephen are the maximum expression of the grandeur reached by Pisa both during the Maritime Republic of Pisa and, later, under the government of the Medici family. The Knights’ square was the Medieval political and civic centre of Pisa and maintains the features designed by Giorgio Vasari in the XVI c. Cosimo I, Granduke of Tuscany, wanted this square to be the seat of the Knights of St. Stephen. Imposing buildings with their original decorations recently restored can still be admired: the Carovana Palace, the Torre dell’Orologio (Medieval prison where Count Ugolino della Gherardesca "starved to death", an event later described in Dante’s Inferno), and the Knight’s church. From here, we will proceed to the "Field of Miracles" where some of the most renowned monuments in the world stand : the Cathedral with its famous leaning bell tower, the Baptistery and the Monumental Graveyard.