Where: Library, Computer Lab
Credit: 3
Description
The first part of the three-hours course, will serve as a brief introduction to the basic principles and tools required for experimental analysis of CERN collider data. Students will interact with a purpose-built ATLAS detector animation to characterize elementary particles produced by highly energetic proton-proton collisions. Students will use the newly acquired knowledge to analyze original data from the ATLAS experiment that was taken in 2011 to draw their conclusion about the structure of the proton as well as understand how the search for the Higgs particle works.
In the second part of the course, students will be connected, via live link-up, to the ATLAS experiment’s control room at CERN. It is a chance to experience CERN from KAUST, and discuss particle physics with an expert guide who is a scientist or engineer working on the ATLAS experiment.
Students will also be able to interact with the CERN Tunnel exhibit.
Outcome of this course:
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Understand the structure and principles of operation of ATLAS detector and how elementary particles interact with the detector material.
- Correctly characterize elementary particles produced by proton-proton collision with the aid of ATLAS detector and the event display MINERVA.
- Correctly identify events (proton-proton collisions) to associate event displays with physical processes.
- Analyze original data from the ATLAS experiment that was taken in 2011 in order to draw conclusion about the structure of the proton as well as understand how the search for the Higgs particle works.
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Christos Chatzichristidis
Christos Chatzichristidis, Senior Lecturer in the Physical Science and Engineering Division at KAUST University, is a high energy astrophysicist interested in alternative Astronomies with γ-rays and neutrinos and in Science Education Research. After receiving his Ph.D. from Durham University (2009), he worked as a Lecturer at University of Athens, University of Patras, Technical University of Crete, and as a visiting Professor of Physics at University of Crete. In the realm of secondary education, he has taught IB Physics at the KAUST schools and was awarded the Ogden Trust Teaching fellowship. Christos research work focuses on the development of a viable Atmospheric Monitoring Strategy for ground-based γ-ray telescopes to both characterize the systematic uncertainties in γ-ray event reconstruction and to minimize any loss of data due to non-optimal atmospheric conditions. His work has found practical application in the development of a novel aviation transmissometer that is easy to align, uses very little power, and is lightweight and portable, enabling its use not only in civil airports, at altitudes exceeding all prior-art aviation transmissometers, but also in tactical military applications, such as remote landing strips. Christos has published 65 refereed articles with citations exceeding 8000 leading to an h-index of 46.
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