Hands on Particle Physics
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Organisation
Workshop Exercise Choices

The Workshop Exercises should be done in groups of 2 students/PC. There is one mandatory exercise (Z decays) for all institutes, which needs about 1h pure working time plus 1/2h introduction and 1/2h final discussion. Detailed suggestions how to organize this exercise are given in the exercise organisation text file .

Topics for the final discussion are listed in the text file of discussion topics .

For the counting of events by the students supporting files can be downloaded.
Group Sheets: ( English (2007) )
Detector Image: (gif (German, 2007), ppt (German, 2007) - 679 kB )

For the local combination of the group results Excel files can be downloaded. OPAL data: ( English (2007) , Norwegian (2006) ) (electron correction)
DELPHI data: ( English (2007) , Norwegian (2006) ) (no electron correction)

For the local average of more than 1 group, the Excel files are
OPAL data, up to 4 groups: ( blank(2007), filled(2007)) (electron correction)
DELPHI data, up to 4 groups: ( blank (2007) ) (no electron correction)
DELPHI data, 2groups: ( blank (2007) , filled (2007) ) (no electron correction)

The central combination is done by the CERN moderators, using the Z combination Excel file:
filled example - 34 KB,
filled sheets from all days of 2007 - 88 KB,
filled sheets from most days of 2006 - 88 KB,
blank sheets for 2006 - 115 KB,
filled sheets from most days of 2005 - 81 KB,
blank sheets for second week 2005 - 46 KB,

During all exercises the presence of assisting graduate students is useful. A scientist is expected to handle introduction, collection of results, and discussion.



Mandatory PC Exercise: Measurement of Z decays

The Z decay exercise from one out of the following three systems has to be chosen in each masterclass, since the final video linkup will combine its results.
Please check the availability of the exercise in Your language under "Physics".

Optional extensions of exercises:

If there is some time left before the video linkup, which is not filled by discussions or a guided tour, the exercises can be optionally extended using the following systems:

You also might let the students just browse through the following packages:

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Felix Krüger