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<title>MINERvA: Measuring</title>
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<p>In these exercises, students will examine events in which a neutrino scatters from a neutron inside a nucleus, and in the energy and momentum conserving reaction which produces a proton from the neutron while the neutrino changes itself into a muon.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="elastic scattering logo small.png" alt="Elastic Collisions of Neutrinos" width="250" border="0" /></p>
<p>By measuring the momentum and energy of the final muon and proton, students can infer properties of both the neutrino that initiated the collision and the neutron target. </p>
<p>Students can explore these events with or without quantitative analysis. From a large sample of events, students can see the principles of classical elastic scattering applied in a particle physics environment, and show that the laws of physics work for particles as well as they do for billiard balls. Along the way, students may discover some surpising properties of the target neutrons inside the nucleus.</p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://minerva05.fnal.gov/Arachne/simple.html?filename=/minerva/data/users/outreach/CCQE_neutrino_DSTs/MV_00002001_0005_numib_v05_1003231144_AnaData_DST_v10r0p2.root&entry=641&slice=3
"><img class="dropshadow" src="arachne-sample-page-2-smaller.png" alt="Quasi-Elastic Scattering Candidate" width="350" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>The<a href="http://minerva05.fnal.gov/Arachne/simple.html?filename=/minerva/data/users/outreach/CCQE_neutrino_DSTs/MV_00002001_0005_numib_v05_1003231144_AnaData_DST_v10r0p2.root&entry=641&slice=3
"> sample event above </a> is an example of a neutrino collision that produces muon and a proton. The incoming neutrino is not visible in the detector before it collides with a neutron inside a carbon nucleus in the scintillating material of the detector. Students can click on the muon and the proton tracks in the display and measure the momentum and the kinetic energy of these subatomic particles, and can apply conservation of energy and momentum to determine the properties of the neutrino, in this case a particle with 2.1 Giga-electron volts of kinetic energy, and the target neutron.</p>
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<h2> Momentum in Particle Interactions </h2>
<h3>Essential Questions</h3>
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<li>When subatomic particles collide their identities often change. Is momentum still conserved?</li>
<li>How does the momentum of the final products of a collision, a proton and a muon, tell us about what collided? </li>
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<h3>Activities and Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li>Kinematics of Neutrino Interactions and Conservation of Momentum</li>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://drive.google.com/a/otterbein.edu/file/d/0B-m-2RB4ZIyZTnppQ3BveVFMUHM/view">Minerva Momentum Model (Google docs)</a>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B-m-2RB4ZIyZTnppQ3BveVFMUHM">(Powerpoint file)</a>
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<li>Group activity analyzing collisions using the <a href="index.html#arachne">Arachne display</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="TeachersGuideJuly2015/index.html#h.4i7ojhp">Arachne scavenger hunt (Link into Google Doc teacher's guide)</a></li>
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<h2> Analyzing Neutrino Collisions </h2>
<h3>Essential Questions</h3>
<ul>
<li>What is the distribution of neutrino momenta that initiate our sample of collisions? </li>
<li>Is a neutron moving inside the nucleus? </li>
</ul>
<h3>Activities and Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li>Background material on the properties of neutrinos and their reactions
<ul>
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<li>Presentation:<a href="https://drive.google.com/a/otterbein.edu/file/d/0B-m-2RB4ZIyZb2NSdzF0djMxZDg/view">
Neutrino Birth And Death</a> <a href="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B-m-2RB4ZIyZb2NSdzF0djMxZDg">(Powerpoint file)</a></li>
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<li>Analyze a large sample of neutrino collisions using<a href="index.html#arachne"> Arachne</a> and Excel worksheets
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<li>The teacher and student guides: <a href="TeachersGuideJuly2015/index.html#h.z337ya">Billiard Ball Activity #2: Intermediate Conservation of Momentum (Link into Teacher's guide Google doc)</a></li>
<li>Template for data analaysis: <a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B-m-2RB4ZIyZNlFmR0RqVkltTVU">(Excel file)</a></li>
<li>Event samples: give each group of students one of the links below: <br/>
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<tr><td><a href="momentum.cgi?A">Group A</a></td><td><a href="momentum.cgi?K">Group K</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="momentum.cgi?B">Group B</a></td><td><a href="momentum.cgi?L">Group L</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="momentum.cgi?C">Group C</a></td><td><a href="momentum.cgi?M">Group M</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="momentum.cgi?D">Group D</a></td><td><a href="momentum.cgi?N">Group N</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="momentum.cgi?E">Group E</a></td><td><a href="momentum.cgi?O">Group O</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="momentum.cgi?F">Group F</a></td><td><a href="momentum.cgi?P">Group P</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="momentum.cgi?G">Group G</a></td><td><a href="momentum.cgi?Q">Group Q</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="momentum.cgi?H">Group H</a></td><td><a href="momentum.cgi?R">Group R</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="momentum.cgi?I">Group I</a></td><td><a href="momentum.cgi?S">Group S</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="momentum.cgi?J">Group J</a></td><td><a href="momentum.cgi?T">Group T</a></td></tr>
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