Pathway Fermilab and Brookhaven Summer School - BNL Neutrino Week

3 Jul 2023, 08:00 → 7 Jul 2023, 16:30 US/Eastern

OEP bldg 438 (BNL)

Milind Vaman Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

The RENEW (Reaching New Energy Sciences Worksforce) initiative supports pathway summer schools for students from under-represented and underserved groups in STEM. 

This agenda is part of the Fermilab/Brookhaven Summer Exchange Program.  It will focus on neutrino science for 1 week.  

The students will perform a range of activities to enhance problem solving from the very basic to fairly advanced level with neutrino science as a focus.  The activities are organized to provide skills that enhance confidence in pursuing STEM.

Monday 3 July

1 Onboarding and badging

Students will get a badge and some introductory materials.

2 Roundtable introductions and Computing setup

3 Mathematica UNIT 1: Introduction

Initial introduction to problem solving by computer.

Speaker: Milind Vaman Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

argon-phases.nb

renew2023-mathphys.pdf

windhoek-temp.nb

4 Mathematica UNIT 2: Basics

Introduction to using Mathematica to solve problems.

Speaker: Milind Vaman Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

unit2-basics.nb

12:00 Lunch

5 Mathematica UNIT 3: Mechanics

Simple mechanics, astronomy, calculate the amount of matter in our galaxy.

Speaker: Milind Vaman Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

unit3-mechanics.nb

6 RHIC/Magnet Division Tours

Wednesday 5 July

7 Mathematica UNIT 4: Electromagnetism

Speaker: Milind Vaman Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

fourier-demo.nb

unit4.nb

8 Mathematica UNIT 5: Statistics

Speaker: Milind Vaman Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

marcov-chain.nb

Men-in-a-circle.nb

unit5-prob-stat.nb

12:00 Lunch

9 Mathematica UNIT 6: Neutrino Oscillations

Speaker: Milind Vaman Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

DUNE-calculations.nb

histos_g4lbne_v3r5p4_QGSP_BERT_OptimizedEngineeredNov2017_antineutrino_LBNEFD_globes_flux.txt

histos_g4lbne_v3r5p4_QGSP_BERT_OptimizedEngineeredNov2017_neutrino_LBNEFD_globes_flux.txt

nuosc-function.nb

nuosc.m

summary.key

summary.pdf

10 BLIP/Isotope production/Actinium 225/Scintillation lab Tours

Thursday 6 July

11 Activities Review and Q&A

Speakers: Dr Mateus F. Carneiro (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Dr Mateus F. Carneiro (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12 Meet STEM professionals

13 Talk: What is C14?

12:00 Lunch

14 NNDC visit and exercises

Friday 7 July

15 Talk: Reactor Neutrinos

Speaker: Dr Chao Zhang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

reactor_nu.pdf

16 Talk: Detector Technologies

Speaker: Steven Linden

RENEW - Neutrino Detectors.pdf

17 Meet Interns in Nuclear/Particle Physics group

12:00 Lunch

18 Water based Liquid Scintillator 1-ton Detector Experience

Visit to the 1-ton Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) detector in the Instrumentation Division. Students will be divided in 4 groups. Each group will take 15-20 minutes of data with the detector and later analyze it.

Speakers: Gannon Lawley, Guang Yang, Matteo Vicenzi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Github link

WbLS_experience.pdf