Conducting Particle Physics Research with High School Students

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Abstract

Thanks to widespread media exposure, high school students are often very interested in particle physics. However, many students have to wait until college or even graduate school to study and do research in particle physics. But much of particle physics research involves writing and debugging software, creating histograms, and calculating efficiencies - all tasks that are possible for a talented high school student. This talk will describe a program in which high school students work together to complete a particle physics analysis. It will go over the highs, lows, and take-aways, and argue that similar programs are both possible and rewarding for researchers in any field who have the time to invest in these students.

*Work supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, managed and operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes.

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Publication: The CMS collaboration., Sirunyan, A.M., Tumasyan, A. et al. Search for resonant and nonresonant new phenomena in high-mass dilepton final states at sv = 13 TeV. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 208 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2021)208.
The CMS collaboration. (2022). Prospects for a Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons at the HL-LHC [White paper]. CERN. https://cds.cern.ch/record/2808604

Presenters

  • Peter J Dong

    • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Authors

  • Peter J Dong

    • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy