Meeting Notes for Next Telecon

Agenda for Apr 2, 2025

quarknet.org

• Current page on i2u2-quarknet
• Everything goes into Basecamp now: https://xenomedia.basecamphq.com/projects/15257644-quarknet-drupal-10/log
• Boston Center user requested to be removed from the site

e-Labs

• e-Labs issues tracking page (Google Doc)
• Major API change in Java 11 will affect migration to Ubuntu 24.04
• CRC reported a vulnerability in e-Labs login code. Patched on Friday.

Cosmic

• Hope to begin ordering parts and setting up kits for Cosmic Watch for Summer 2025 workshops at centers
  • inquiry sent to PCB Express
  • May combine order with Colorado State outreach program - we should know soon
  • CW workshop on offer.
• International Muon Week 1-page reports are coming in and being posted to the website
• CME efforts: UIC studnets drafted a paper on CR rates for the last 5 most intense CMEs; next Japan-US meeting on April 12th
• Pyramid display great on simulated data, however, we now have some test files.
  • Data files need run headers and readout hardware needs addresses we've agreed to.
  • Event structure from 6 CAEN readout boxes must be built via hardware (Colletor module under testing) or software (new decoder for display).
  • Detector 1 is on the way to Mexico City

CMS

• iSpy-webgl is a bt different from last year. Revised screencast: https://web.quarknet.org/mc/videos/cms_analysis_18mar2025.mp4. → Revise:
  • The 2023 iSpy was on the CMS Library page, leading to its wide use as well as the screencast above.
  • This is now corrected:
    • iSpy: http://ispy-webgl-masterclass.web.cern.ch/ispy-webgl-masterclass/
    • Screencast: https://web.quarknet.org/mc/videos/CMSanalysis_20feb2024.mp4
• TM: I have fixed a few bugs in iSpy regarding geometry which won't affect masterclasses this year but will be nice for the next iteration
• TM: I spoke to two classes (year 3, 7-8 year old students) at my son's school for STEM week. Interactive slides are here: https://tpmccauley.github.io/thomson-house/. It went pretty well and perhaps some of this could be made generic and useful for QN purposes.
• Past but still useful:
  • WIP: new jupyter notebook to explore B physics (and eventually produce files): https://github.com/QuarkNet-HEP/bphysics-jupyter
  • CMS Comms team produced video of CMS footage for masterclass intro... https://web.quarknet.org/mc/videos/vcvv2025/IMC_CMSvideo_04feb2025.mp4

• Increased interest in Hypatia-online event display as jthe java verion of hypatia is becoming less stable.
  • https://quarknet.org/document/hypatia-online-imc
  • worked well Sat 29 Mar with mutliple institutes
• Past but still useful: ATLAS video...https://web.quarknet.org/mc/videos/moderators/silent_cern_atlas.mp4.

Neutrino

Misc

• The new Masterclass Library is just about complete and has replaced the 2024 Library. Recent modifications:
  • iSpy fix above
  • Hypatia-online page and screencast
• FNAL-IMC ends one week from tomorrow, on Thu 10 Apr

Servers

• VM migration from Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04 underway, starting with new version of i2u2-dev.
• Track progress: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nE--tELGms6IXjbQKnRzOGpe3Rydqshd8JTVTqvqs7Y