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HEP in Greek Classes

  • 1. Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications - IASA, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - NKUA, Panepistimioupoli, Ilissia 15771 (Greece)
  • 2. Physics Faculty, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - NKUA, Panepistimioupoli, Ilissia 15771 (Greece)

Description

The HEP (high energy physics) Inquiry learning resources created over the last four years by the European outreach projects are reviewed. The resources are mostly addressed to high school students and the purpose is to ignite their interest on science. In addition, at the University of Athens for the last four years we have been using the HYPATIA on-line event analysis tool as a lab course for 4. year undergraduate physics students, majoring in HEP. Each year 40-50 students highly appreciated the course, since they get a direct involvement in the actual top-level research. Up to now, the course was limited to the visual inspection of a few tens of ATLAS events. Recently we have enriched the course with additional analysis exercises, which involve large samples of events. The students, through a user friendly interface can analyze the samples (both signal and background ones) and optimize the cut selection in order to search for the Higgs decay H → 4 leptons. Recently ATLAS released 1 fb-1 of data, so starting now the students analyse real data. (authors)

Availability note (English)

Available from doi: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713701012
Part of:
EPJ Web of Conferences, Proceedings of the 12. conference on quark confinement and the hadron spectrum - 2016

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Publishing Information

Publisher
EDP Sciences
Imprint Place
Les Ulis (France)
Imprint Title
EPJ Web of Conferences, Proceedings of the 12. conference on quark confinement and the hadron spectrum - 2016
Imprint Pagination
v. 137 [1931 p.]
Journal Page Range
p. 01012.p.1-01012.p.10

Conference

Title
12. conference on quark confinement and the hadron spectrum
Acronym
CONF12
Dates
29 Aug - 3 Sep 2016
Place
Thessaloniki (Greece)

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