Boot Camp
The summer Boot Camp is a continuing national activity that provides an opportunity for teachers to visit Fermilab and see the accelerators and detectors for themselves. Teachers from existing QuarkNet centers attend Boot Camp and form research groups to explore simulated data. They apply the physics that they know (i.e., energy and momentum conservation) to unravel the physics encoded in the data. This helps the teachers construct new knowledge about what has transpired inside the detector in exactly the same way that experimenters do. The groups specialize in one of three subdetectors: tracking, electromagnetic calorimetry and hadronic calorimetry. Each group determines their own calibration from test beams and then combines these to decipher each of the 40,000 events in the data. Some of the events decay with neutrinos and don't seem to conserve momentum. These test the teachers' belief in momentum conservation—just as beta decays tested Pauli's! In addition, participants attend several talks and go on tours of technical areas.
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