SMuK 2023 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 49: Outreach (joint session HK/T)

T 49.4: Vortrag

Dienstag, 21. März 2023, 17:45–18:00, SCH/A252

The Particle Therapy Masterclass for targeted education and outreach on real-world application of fundamental physics — •Niklas Wahl for the Netzwerk Teilchenwelt collaboration — Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

The Particle Therapy Masterclass (PTMC) was established in 2019 by the piloting institutes CERN, DKFZ and GSI to showcase how fundamental physics can translate to applications with directly visible societal benefit. Over a day the PTMC introduces how fundamental physics research on accelerators as well as particle, hadron and detector physics enable cancer treatments utilizing the Bragg-peak. A hands-on session with the open source toolkit “matRad” facilitates interactive treatment planning for participants using open, virtual patient data.

In the following, the PTMC was integrated into the International Physics Masterclasses by IPPOG targeting high school students with more than 40 international course sessions during spring 2022. With Netzwerk Teilchenwelt, customized Masterclasses were held in fellowship meetings of senior grade students, intermediate level school project days or as interactive outreach events to the general public. Integration into university level courses at DKFZ was also successful.

Held over the last years in Germany, these sessions showed that the PTMC can be adapted to different educational levels from the general public to undergraduate students and is especially suited for online courses. The PTMC thus proved to be a flexible and interactive tool in education and outreach for different target groups to show directly visible “real-world” impact of fundamental physics research.