The following objectives outline what you will learn and be able to do during this study of CMS data. For assessment follow the guidance your teacher gave you at the beginning of the project.

• Content and Investigation Objectives:
  • Describe particles colliding in and emerging from collisions detected by CMS as predicted by the Standard Model.
  • List in order and describe the CMS subdetectors in terms of the properties of the particles they detect.
  • Explain the role that conservation of mass/energy, momentum, and charge play in analyzing events detected at CMS.
  • Design, conduct and report on an investigation of a testable hypothesis for which evidence can be provided using CMS data.
• Process:
  • Explain the data collection process including what corrections need to be made in order to obtain reliable data.
  • Evaluate the data to decide which are reliable/usable and which are not and explain how they arrived at the decision to include some data and exclude others.
  • Collect, organize and analyze data to obtain meaningful findings.
  • Use the data to provide evidence to support their claims.
• Computing:
  • Explain why they used specific computing resources in their analysis.
• Literacy:
  • Demonstrate an ability to express meaning in writing (such as in science notebooks, reports) and come to agreement about meaning with others (such as peer review, discussion).