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Revision as of 20:41, 13 November 2011
Contents |
What is this hack?
One of the experiments from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment), has released a small amount of the data for educational purposes. However, it is hard to access and even more difficult to understand. Can we hack a better interface to these data? Can we create a website to allow others to use these data for education or art? Or can we do real science with these data ? I'll bring the data and explain what is in these datasets and some simple tools to interface with these data. Looking for hackers, coders, educators, artists and definitely designers, to figure out if this can be done.
LHC_Data_Hack/The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector
The data for this hack
The analysis chain
Collisions in the detector
Muons! Masses!
Science Hack Day contribution!
Check out this interactive demo that accumulates the di-muon masses.
Mass distributions
Science Hack Day contribution!
Calculation of the masses assuming Classical Physics or Special Relativity
This visualization uses d3 and is rendering on-the-fly, so you may have to be patient as it runs over the dataset.
The parent particles and the original discoveries
The first peak you see (in the Special Relativistic mass distribution) is the J/Psi particle which is composed of a charm and anti-charm quark. It was discovered in 1974 at SLAC and MIT almost simultaneously!
The second peak is the Upsilon resonance.