Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 15: First International Masterclasses of ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) were organized today at University of Jammu (JU).
“Hands-on Particle Physics Masterclasses” was organized by the High Energy Physics (HEP) group of the Department of Physics (JU) for high school/college/university girl students. This is the first time that the International Masterclasses in Particle Physics was organized in India. Forty girl students had registered themselves to become part of the learning experience of its kind.
International Masterclasses in particle physics provides participating students an opportunity to discover the world of quarks and leptons (fundamental particles of matter) for themselves by performing measurements on real data from CERN, to meet active particle physics researchers and to link up with like-minded students from other countries.
The day-long event started with an inaugural session where the coordinator of the event Dr Ramni Gupta, Associate Professor of Physics presenting welcome address. The session was attended and addressed by the chairperson of ALICE-India Collaboration Dr Zubayer Ahammed from VECC, Kolkata, spokesperson of ALICE-India Collaboration Prof Bedanga Mohanty from NISER, Odhisha, Dr Despina-Hatzifotiadou outreach coordinator of ALICE experiment, Prof Anju Bhasin and Prof SS Sambyal, Head of Physics Department.
The resource persons for the first session (Talks & Discussions) of the event were Dr Despina-Hatzifotiadou, Prof Anju Bhasin, Professor of Physics, Dr Ramni Gupta, Associate Professor of Physics, and Meenakshi Sharma, PhD student of HEP Group of JU.
The special attraction of the event was the virtual tour of the ALICE experiment in the cavern of LHC (Large Hadron Collider) along with the online question-answer session that was followed by the Hands-on session.
Later in the evening, participants connected to the video-conference with the moderators from the CERN and shared and compared the results of the exercises with those obtained by the other two institutes (CTU, Prague, and Thessaloniki, Greece) who also had organized ALICE Masterclasses.
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