ATLAS Masterclass 2025

Saturday 26 Apr 2025, 08:00 → 17:00 US/Pacific

B15-253

The program includes:

• Introductory lessons by UC Berkeley and Berkeley lab physicists
• A tour of the Advanced Light Source with Dr Ina Reichel
• Hands-on computational analysis of real data from the LHC
• Lunch with Berkeley lab graduate students and postdocs!
• Visit the website for more information: https://imc.lbl.gov
   

1 Organizer Arrival¶

2 Volunteer Arrival¶

3 Arrival¶

4 Introduction¶

Safety talk & icebreaker activity

Speaker: Anne Fortman

ATLASMasterclass_Intro.pdf

5 Introduction to Particle Physics¶

Speaker: Laura Nosler (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

HEP_intro_talk_2025.pdf

6 Activity Introduction¶

An introduction to particle physics analysis using the Hypatia software

Speaker: Liam Foster

LiamF_2025-03-19_talk2-Hypatia (2).pdf

7 Data analysis¶

In this portion of the event, students will perform data analysis on laptops with help from volunteers.

11:00 Break

8 Data analysis¶

9 Data upload¶

Upload your data to the central server.

12:10 Lunch

Lunch with UC Berkeley ATLAS scientists

10 Discussion of Local Results¶

Combine our datasets. What do we observe?
https://zpathweb.hepp.uiocloud.no/OPloT-US/index.php

Speaker: Louis-Guillaume Gagnon

Results

11 Particle Accelerators¶

Speaker: Liam Foster

LiamF_2025-04-27_accelerators (1).pdf

12 Videocall with TRIUMF 🇨🇦¶

See your results live with TRIUMF - Canada's particle accelerator centre!

15:00 Break

13 Particle Accelerators Beyond High Energy Physics¶

Speaker: Liam Foster

LiamF_2025-04-26_other-uses.pdf

14 ALS tour¶

An introduction to Synchrotron Light Sources with Ina Reichel and a tour of the Advanced Light Source

Speaker: Ina Reichel

ATLAS Masterclass 2025.pdf

16:15 Break

15 Debrief and Q&A¶

16 Pick-up at B15¶