stories

= = =Stories= One of our goals is to create a set of short video, animation, or infographics vignette that would tell a short physics story.

They should be 2-3 minutes each if video or animation or just one picture if 2D.

We need ideas!

As a mild "rubric" I suggest that each might have:
 * 1) a title: what a physicist would call it
 * 2) a question
 * 3) a person
 * 4) an experiment or thought-experiment
 * 5) a status--a resolution or a "dunno"
 * 6) maybe a metaphor?

Idea list (join in!):
Rutherford Scattering dark matter quarks exist accelerators Feynman Diagrams antimatter Einstein's Tee Shirt Equation proton structure detectors the particle zoo the top quark Scales and dimensions Big Stuff Small Stuff Black holes and how ATLAS might produce virtual black holes Big bang and how ATLAS records conditions early in the history of the Universe ATLAS control room - how the data is taken CERN control room - how beams are controlled MSU@CERN - how we at MSU make a difference in the CERN measurements Series on people at the LHC - show a 2 minute portrait of a graduate student or postdoc or professor and what they do CERN@MSU - how CERN and particle physics inventions are part of daily life at MSU A world-wide effort - many institutions all over the world, each contributing hardware, software, and physics expertise "Oh, you work at the Cyclotron! Well, no, let me explain..." - compare cyclotron and LHC: hardware, physics, etc. Angels & Demons - what is just like in the movie, what is different. Visiting CERN - If I was to go on a trip to Europe and visit Geneva, what could I go visit at CERN? Underground accelerator - Protons circulate in the LHC many meters under the ground and life on top of it goes on normally




 * 1) **Rutherford Scattering**
 * 2) How do we know that the nucleus exists?
 * 3) Ernest Rutherford, Marsden, Hans Geiger
 * 4) The Gold foil experiment
 * 5) The charge of the nucleus is concentrated at a point, rather than spread out through matter.


 * 1) === Dark matter ===
 * 2) Why do the galaxies not rotate properly?
 * 3) Fred Zwicky
 * 4) Observations of many galactic rotations
 * 5) Dunno! There should be a particle.
 * 6) A recreational merry go-round


 * 1) ===Quark Scattering===
 * 2) How do we know that quarks exist?
 * 3) Feynman, Bjorken
 * 4) Deep inelastic scattering and two jet events
 * 5) Conclusive evidence of point-like centers of scattering
 * 6) Feynman's bees


 * 1) === **The acceleration cycle** ===
 * 2) How do Particle Accelerators work?
 * 3) Bob Wilson
 * 4) CERN cycle
 * 5) race cars?


 * 1) ===Feynman Diagrams===
 * 2) How do physicists represent reactions?
 * 3) Feynman
 * 4) Some simple processes


 * 1) ===Antimatter===
 * 2) Does antimatter exist?
 * 3) Dirac
 * 4) creation and annihilation
 * 5) PET scanning - universe imbalance?




 * 1) ===E=mc2===
 * 2) How does energy create matter?
 * 3) Einstein
 * 4) Collisions of protons to create things more massive than protons




 * 1) ===Proton structure===
 * 2) What's inside of a proton?
 * 3) Gell-Mann
 * 4) deep inelastic electron scattering
 * 5) modern understanding of quarks and gluons


 * 1) ===Particle detectors===
 * 2) How do we detect particles?
 * 3) Charpak
 * 4) ATLAS detector full slice


 * 1) === **The Particle Zoo** ===
 * 2) What kinds of particles are there?
 * 3) Gell-Mann? Wilczek?
 * 4) quarks, leptons, IVBs, hadrons


 * 1) === **The top quark** ===
 * 2) What is it, what do we know about it, what can it tell us about the future?
 * 3) Kobayashi and Maskawa? Or Grannis and Mont and Bellettini and Carithers?
 * 4) D0 and CDF
 * 5) top quark is the heaviest known Fermion, only discovered in 1995, very small width, precisely measured mass, key to electroweak symmetry breaking, Higgs coupling proportional to particle mass
 * 6) King of the Fermions




 * 1) === **Scales and Dimensions** ===
 * 2) What distance, time (and energy) scales are involved in particle physics and ATLAS?
 * 3) infinitely small to infinitely large: elementary particles to top quark decay to b quark decay to muons, resolution in tracker to size of tracker to size of detector etc.
 * 4) relate to humanly understandable dimensions - size of hair, compare to planets, etc.
 * 1) relate to humanly understandable dimensions - size of hair, compare to planets, etc.
 * 1) relate to humanly understandable dimensions - size of hair, compare to planets, etc.


 * 1) === **Big Stuff** ===
 * 2) What really big stuff can we compare the individual components of ATLAS and the LHC to?
 * 3) ATLAS collaboration
 * 4) How do the different detector and accelerator components compare to other big things?
 * 5) Relate to humanly understandable dimensions - enough cable to go around the world X times, as many readout channels as N megapixel cameras, accelerator super-conducting magnets has 20,000 MRI machines back-to-back, etc.
 * 1) Relate to humanly understandable dimensions - enough cable to go around the world X times, as many readout channels as N megapixel cameras, accelerator super-conducting magnets has 20,000 MRI machines back-to-back, etc.




 * 1) === **Small Stuff** ===
 * 2) What really small things can we compare the individual components of ATLAS and the LHC to?
 * 3) How do the the tiny little detector and accelerator components have a big impact? How precise do we need to be in order to make measurements?
 * 4) Relate to humanly understandable dimensions - microscope view of pixel detector channel compared to human hair, size of beam at interaction point compared to length of accelerator - two people shooting bullets out of guns then bullets hitting each other, size of electronic signal detected in liquid argon, timing alignment of trigger, etc.
 * 1) Relate to humanly understandable dimensions - microscope view of pixel detector channel compared to human hair, size of beam at interaction point compared to length of accelerator - two people shooting bullets out of guns then bullets hitting each other, size of electronic signal detected in liquid argon, timing alignment of trigger, etc.
 * 1) Relate to humanly understandable dimensions - microscope view of pixel detector channel compared to human hair, size of beam at interaction point compared to length of accelerator - two people shooting bullets out of guns then bullets hitting each other, size of electronic signal detected in liquid argon, timing alignment of trigger, etc.