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/201713701012Additional details
Identifiers
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)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 51094517
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S96: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ATLAS SUPERCONDUCTING LINAC; EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES; EXERCISE; GREECE; HIGGS BOSONS; HIGGS MODEL; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LEARNING; LEPTONS; PARTICLE DECAY; REVIEWS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BOSONS; DECAY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DOCUMENT TYPES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EUROPE; FERMIONS; HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS; HILACS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PHYSICS; WESTERN EUROPE
Optional Information
- Notes
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