EPPOG International Masterclasses “Hands on “

www.physicsmasterclasses.org

Plenary ECFA meeting, CERN, 26.11.2009 Michael Kobel, TU Dresden The masterclass idea

Basic idea from UK Students (16-19 year-olds) spend 1 day at research institute Listen to scientists‘ introduction to particle physics Work like real scientists: measurements with particle physics data

Why Masterclasses? Make modern particle physics data available to students Let students explore fundamental forces and building blocks of nature Demonstrate the scientific research process Stimulate interest in science The EPPOG international masterclass idea Create an international collaboration of students Join institutes worldwide with 300-400 students per day Since 2005: all w/in 3 weeks each year Over 80 institutes from 23 countries taking part Over 6000 students participating 5-6 masterclasses join in video conference at the end of the day Discuss results and differences Combine results (better accuracy) Quiz and prizes Questions to scientists schedule, data, background material, description of all participating institutes: www.physicsmasterclasses.org Participation EPPOG international masterclasses

25 120

20 100 80 15 60 10 40 5 20 0 0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Countries Institutes

US 6000 (Quarknet) 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 Brazil 0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

South Africa Participants Examples: Italy, Germany

Hamburg

Berlin

Göttingen WuppertalDortmund Dresden

Aachen Siegen Bonn Würzburg Mainz Erlangen Heidelberg

Tübingen München

Freiburg

2009: 14 institutes 2010: +2 institutes Agenda of the day

Lectures , Accelerators, Detectors institute´s activities, cosmology etc. Lunch with physics students and tutors Measurements Video conference Lectures Measurements

Collecting results Local analysis Final video conference: combination of results Quiz with the CERN moderators

Prizes funded by CERN Masterclass CD-rom 10 web-based systems with material in 17 languages online at http://www.physicsmasterclasses.org  physics offline on masterclass CDrom (ca. 7000 copies / year) offered to all participants and their teachers useful outreach to public and schools

•What are the fundamental building blocks of matter? •How can I identify them? •Which forces hold them together? •How do these forces work? Hands on •How far have forces and matter been understood? Find the answers to these and other questions by browsing, reading, and working through the Web systems collected on this CDrom in 16 languages. Most of the Particle Physics material contains interactive elements, some even real particle physics events for making your own measurements. System requirements: Web Browser, Java, Shockwave and Media Player Interactive educational material on •Hands-On-CERN (Ca, Cz, De, Dk, En, Fr, Ga, Gr, Hu, It, No, Pt, Sk,Sp,Sv) Particle Physics in 17 languages Erik Johansson et al., Stockholm •A Keyhole To The Birth Of Time (En, It, Pl, Sp) James Gillies, Richard Jacobsson, et al CERN •Identifying Particles (En, De, Gr, It, Sk) Terry Wyatt, Univ Manchester •BaBar Particle Physics Teaching Package (En) Heather Lang, David Kirk, Univ Manchester (George Lafferty) The material on this CDrom was collected and translated by the (En) •Lancaster Particle Physics Package European Particle Physics Outreach F. Foster et al., Lancaster Univ (Andre Sopczak) Group EPPOG for the yearly •KworkQuark (De) DESY (Dirk Rathje, Marc Hermann) Particle Physics Masterclasses •Teilchentour I: Reise durch die Welt der Teilchen (De) http://wyp.teilchenphysik.org Dagmar Schmitz, Univ Bonn (Michael Kobel) •Teilchentour II: Anwendungen in Kosmologie u. Medizin (De) Alexandra Petri, Univ Bonn (Michael Kobel) •Grundlagen der Teilchenphysik (De) German Hacker, Univ Erlangen •Le Monde des Particules (Fr) Gwendoline de Hemptinne, Guillaume Leibenguth, Damien Bertrand, Univ Louvain Measurements, local results

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Happily confirm LEP results published in: Physics Report, May 2006 New activity: upgrade for LHC . Didactical and technical concept . Didactics Ph.D. Konrad Jende @ CERN . close cooperation with CERN teachers program . and EPPOG, Quarknet, Netzwerk Teilchenwelt . Challenges: . Flexible for whatever the LHC will discover . Plug & play for all institutes . At least ATLAS and CMS, others possible . First test package in summer 2010, beta version for Masterclasses 2011 . Physics task . So far LEP: . lepton universality and 3 colors in Z-decays

. optional: αs from counting jets, WW at LEP2 . LHC: find W (real), Z (real), H (simulated!), …(?) . Existing ATLAS programs for LHC-exercises in EC-project „Learning with ATLAS @CERN“ . Minerva (UK) . Hypatia (Greece) . Amelia (US) Refereed evaluation in Physics Education 42 (2007) 636-644 severity: just right success independent of a-priori knowledge and gender Most important correlation

Understanding the scientific research process generates interest in (especially modern) physics Funding of International Masterclasses

Central Organisation Coordinator (M.K.): EPPOG Project Manager: Helmholtz Alliance Germany (since mid 2008)

In-Kind Personal: EPPOG, EVO-team, local institutes Prizes: CERN CDs, Brochures: EPS + national resources

Project for LHC-Upgrade “Awareness of CERN” initiative: German BMBF Didactic Ph.D. student: Wolfgang-Gentner program @ CERN technical support and trials: LHC communication project THANK YOU for Your attention