SMuK 2021 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 9: Outreach

HK 9.2: Gruppenbericht

Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 14:30–15:00, H2

PANDA Outreach Projects — •Mustafa Schmidt — II. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

PANDA is a fixed-target experiment that is going to address a wide range of open questions in the hadron physics sector by studying the interactions between antiprotons and a stationary proton target. In 2019, a small outreach task force was founded by the PANDA collaboration with the main intention of de- signing a dedicated PANDA Masterclass for the Netzwerk Teilchenwelt (NTW). Since then, the number of participants has increased constantly and many new outreach projects were initiated. The most advanced one is a 1:10 scale LEGO model of the PANDA detector that has been designed purely virtually with the software LeoCAD and will be constructed after finalizing the tendering process. In addition to that, a new exhibition model, that mainly consists of 3D printed parts, of the PANDA detector with the same scale as the LEGO model is currently under development in Bochum. With the help of LED strips that are connected to a microcontroller, certain events, simulated with the PANDA simulation framework PandaRoot, will be displayed within the model and on a computer screen. A new project in Upsala focuses on the implementation of the PANDA geometry into the graphics engine Unity. This is considered to be the first step of creating a framework for Virtual Reality (VR) glasses with a virtual 3D model of the PANDA detector in combination with selected events. Two more projects will additionally be discussed in this talk: a card game to easily explain the fundamental parameters related to hadron physics, and the graphics rendering of the final detector.