Data Analysis in Particle Physics
How to teach to students
Curriculum clasroom connection
- Laboratory analysis
- Data analysis
- Mathematics
Key ideas
Best practice examples
Gambling at CERN
Uncovering a cheater and discovering the Higgs.
- Understanding of the lenses that data can be looked at with. The lens (statistics/mathematics) with which we chose to look at the data affects how we see the data.
- Filtering: Separating data from background data.
- Does data fit prediction model?
Dice vs. Higgs
Dark ideas :-)
- Physical data to Mathematical data and converting data which comes out of the detector into mathematical models.
- Using models to explain physical world.
Conceptions & Challenges
- Unlikely things do not occur.
- Comparing prediction to experimental results.
- Data fitting.
- Interpreting plots.
Helpful material and resources
- CERN Masterclass program
- Open CMS data workshop in Phyton
Iceberg revealed :-)