Masterclass 2018

Goal:

This is ATLAS Z path measurements masterclass 2018! We will analyze proton proton collisions delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2012. This is a subset of data contributed to the discovery of Higgs boson in 2012 and leads to the Phyics Nobel Prize in 2013.

Participants:

Meadowdale High led by James P. Landon <LandonJ@edmonds.wednet.edu>
Intelake High led by Michael P O'Byrne<obyrnem@bsd405.org>
On-line registriong: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/schsu/349584

Mentors:

Analysis instructor: Prof. Shih-Chieh Hsu <schsu@uw.edu>
Theory instructor: Dr. Michael Park <q1park@gmail.com>

Date

Mar 10 2018 9am~2pm

Vidyon conference at 1pm

Seattle, South Bend

Location

UW Seattle campus Physics and Astronomy Building B108/B110
Transportation: When you enter the campus at West Gatehouse (near 15th Ave and NE 40th Street), pull up to the kiosk and ask for parking close to Physics and Astoronmy building. They should direct you to lots C1-C6, which are fairly close to the buildings. For complete details on UW parking, see the parking info page.

Pre-requisite

Each student is required to go through following pre-lectures and carry out assignments before coming to the masterclass.

Particle Physics Introduction

Dr. Michael Park's lecture: https://youtu.be/djHyFwtTUjM (11:01)
(Optional) Extension reading of Particle Adventure:

The Standard Model: http://www.particleadventure.org/standard-model.html
Accelrators and Detectors: http://www.particleadventure.org/accelerators-and-detectors.html

Analysis

Dr. Michael Park's tutorial: https://youtu.be/86XaVdJUf20 (14:27)
Install HYPATIA 7.4 to your laptop, and download groupA.zip example events.
Run HYPATIA program (it might prompt to request JAVA installation).
Open example files and follow Dr. Park's tutorial video to go through these events.
(Optional) Extension reading:

Documents listed in the hands-on analysis session below

Schedule & Resources

8:30am Regsitration

9:00am Safety/introduction (Hsu)
9:10am Theory and Tutorial (Dr. Michael Park)
9:30am Hands-on analysis

ATLAS Event Guide: Zpath-SignalEvents.pdf

ATLAS Analysis procedure: Zpath-Cuts.pdf

Cheat sheet (short atlas_cheat_z_v0.pdf) (long cheat-sheet_en.pdf)

12:00pm Lunch in PAA A114 (prepare your own lunch)

12:30pm Discussion (Hsu)
1:00pm Video conference: https://indico.cern.ch/event/306164/
2:00pm End of the class

Reuqirement:

Each student needs to finish the Pre-lecture assignment before coming to UW.
Each student needs to bring his/her own laptop to UW.

It's fine for two students to share one laptop alghough you will find it is easier to use one laptop for analysis and the other laptop for reference reading.