2024 NOvA Masterclass @ CSU | QuarkNet

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Colorado State University Center

NOvA Masterclass Schedule

March 10, 2024

CSU – Natural and Environmental Sciences Building (NESB) – Room B302

Small URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/csunova24

Time	Activity
9:00 AM	Arrival/Nametags, Breakfast
9:10 AM	Presentation, Prof. Bob Wilson Q&A
10:00 AM	Activity: Particle Cards Presentation: Intro NOvA & Goal Intro Slides - slides 1-10 Goal: Do we see evidence of neutrino oscillation? "Cheat sheet"
10:50 AM	BREAK
11:00 AM	NOvA Analysis, Part 1 (Far Detector) - slides 11-22 Part 1 A - Far Detector, Charged Current "NuMu" Link to 6 Events Link to CC Form Part 1 B - Far Detector, Neutral Current Link to 40 Events Link to NC Form Link to Part 1 Spreadsheet/Results What is the length we will use to separate CC from NC events?
12:00 PM	LUNCH - Pizza
12:30 PM	NOvA Analysis, Part 2 (Near Detector) - slides 23-24 Python Near Event Analysis - Participant Version Do a “File Make a Copy” Github link
1:30 PM	Pre-conference Recruit a couple of students to be representatives for videocon Present answers to the following questions: What was the cut-off length we used to separate CC NuMu and NC events? Did we see evidence of neutrino oscillation? What was our evidence and reasoning?
2:00 PM	Videoconference NOvA Zoom link
2:30 PM	BREAK
2:40 PM	LSOP Time Build your own physics souvenir!
3:50-4:00 PM	Sum up, end of day

Other Resources:

In case students don't have access to Googe Colaboratory:
- Binder instructions - link

Completed/teacher notebook