QuarkNet Master Class 2025



Masterclass at Rice U

We are excited to host you all on our campus for the upcoming Quarknet Masterclass (Saturday March 29). Below we provide a few more details on how to get to Rice, where to park, what room were are in, and what the agenda will look like.

Our Masterclass will take place on Saturday, March 29, from 8h30 am until about 4 pm.

Registration


Registration is free. Please use this link to access the registration form.
Teachers: (1) please contact Frank Geurts as soon as possible to make sure that we have teacher chaperons for each school that plans on participating; (2) also, reach out to Barbara Braun or me in order to receive a stipend for your attendance (to be confirned).


Lunch


We are working on providing for lunch options on campus.

Parking


The best place to park will be the North Parking lot which can reach through Entrance #20 (for more parking options, see http://geurts.rice.edu/contact/campus/). We provide a limited amount of parking vouchers to those students/parents who carpool.

Location


We will use the computer lab of Duncan Hall 1020. This room is accessible from outside Duncan Hall. Campus tour 1 will be at Brockman Hall 120.

Agenda


The agenda involves a couple of lectures on particle physics and the analysis of real data from the LHC. We will also walk the students to a nearby lab in which we have set up an experiment in which we determine the lifetime of a muon. We will also be visiting a real physics lab!

The tentative agenda for Saturday is as follows:

  • 8h30 - 9h registration & gateway activity
  • 9h - 9h45 lecture on particle physics: what are fundamental particles?
  • 9h45 - 10h30 Campus Tour: detecting real muons
  • 10h30- 11h15 How to detect particles and analyze real data from CMS?
  • 11h30-1pm - Lunch
  • 1h - 2h30pm Data analysis in groups of two
  • 2h30pm Data analysis discussion
  • 3pm - video conference with CMS analyzers
  • 4pm - end of the masterclass

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