Pathway Fermilab and Brookhaven Summer School - BNL Neutrino Week

24 Jul 2023, 08:00 → 28 Jul 2023, 16:30 US/Eastern

OEP Auditorium - 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 24 July

1 Introductions and computing setup

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 Tour: RHIC Control Room/Magnet Division

Speaker: Travis Shrey (BNL)

Tuesday 25 July

6 Mathematica UNIT 4: Electromagnetism

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

fourier-demo.nb

unit4.nb

7 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

8 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.m

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summary.pdf

Wednesday 26 July

9 Talk: Dark Matter and Snowball detector demonstration

Students will follow an introductory talk on Dark Matter and a lab demonstration for the innovative "Snowball" detector concept.

Speaker: Matthew Szydagis

Evt2BNL.jpg

Evt2BNL.mov

snowball2023july.pdf

11:30 Walk back to OEP/Lunch

12:00 Lunch

10 Meet Interns in Nuclear/Particle Physics group

Students will meet with Summer Interns that will share their experience in surviving college, studying STEM and landing an intership at BNL.

11 Tour: BLIP/Liquid Scintillator Lab

Thursday 27 July

12 Talk: Reactor Neutrinos

Speakers: Xin Qian (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Xin Qian (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Reactor_Neutrinos.pdf

Reactor_Neutrinos.pptx

13 Meet STEM professionals

Students will meet with STEM professionals working at BNL that will share their experience of being a scientist.

Speakers: Mr Emanuel Chimanski (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, NAPC-Nuclear Data Section, International Atomic Energy Agency), Henry Lovelace III, Dr Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Mickey Chiu

14 Talk: What is C14?

Speaker: Mr Emanuel Chimanski (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, NAPC-Nuclear Data Section, International Atomic Energy Agency)

12:00 Lunch

15 NNDC visit and exercises

Friday 28 July

16 Activities Review and Q&A

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

17 Talk: Detector Technologies

Speakers: Steven Linden (Boston University), Steven Linden

18 WbLS 1-ton Detector Experience: Intro and tour

Visit to the 1-ton Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) detector in the Instrumentation Division.

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

WbLS_experience.pdf

12:00 Lunch

19 WbLS 1-ton Detector Experience: Data taking and analysis

Students will be divided in 4 groups. Each group will take 15-20 minutes of data with the 1-ton WbLS detector and later analyze it.

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

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