BACKGROUND MATERIAL - Outreach QuarkNet

BACKGROUND MATERIAL

Background in Cosmic Rays

MasterClass Presentation - Matteo Palermo

What are Cosmic Rays? Where do they come from, and how do we detect them?

In this presentation, you will learn about Dark Matter and Cosmic Rays, and the AMS-02 experiment: the bigger particle space detector, currently on board the ISS.

Background in Dark Matter

MasterClass Presentation - Sven Vahsen

This presentation for MaterClass, will introduce you to the topic of Dark Matter.

Background in Solar Activity

This presentation describes the sun, the solar cycle and how it affects cosmic ray activity with long term solar modulation.

A few details about the short term activity such as solar energetic particles and Forbush decreses are also present.

Solar Modulation with AMS - 02

This presentation will introduce you to how to use measurements at different energies to investigate whether solar modulation affects particles of all energies in the same way or not.

Introduction to the Standard Models of Particle Physics and Cosmology - Jason Kumar

Masterclass presentation by Jason Kumar

         

        

Introduction to CERN and CMS and background for the CMS analysis - Jamie Gainer

Punahou Masterclass Presentation by Jamie Gainer