Appetizers
A brief tour of the Zooniverse: recorded talk at CERN https://indico.cern.ch/event/760921/
The very first (and up to now unique) collider physics project was developed by ATLAS physicists from Oxford : HiggsHunters is now finished and archived ( https://www.higgshunters.org/#/ ) but publications & outreach material remain :
- 2016 - Phase 1 "That looks weird' - evaluating citizen scientists' ability to detect unusual features in ATLAS images of LHC collisions" . The project makes it to the Higgs 4th anniversary CERN news, with the subtitle "A new citizen science project gives sofa-scientists the chance to search for previously undiscovered particles". See also CHEP16 slides and proceedings .
- 2018 - Phase 2 LHCP18 talk Recursive engagement: the public as data analysts and outreach creators & CERN globe recorded conference .
- 2019 - Wrap up Interview on YouTube
New projects are expected in 2021, setup by the REINFORCE team https://reinforceeu.eu/ : identification of Virgo events via sonification, muography with cosmic muons, bio-luminescence in deep sea water. Plus and extension of the past ATLAS project, by a totally different team and including machine learning.
Is there room for more ... ?
ESCAPE opportunities :
Out of the astrophysics related projects currently running, 2 were developed in the ESCAPE context :
- Clump Scout https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/hughdickinson/galaxy-zoo-clump-scout
- Lofar https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/chrismrp/radio-galaxy-zoo-lofar
- Contact for outreach is Stephen Serjeant, from Oxford Open University https://stephenserjeant.github.io/index.html
What is AFAIK unique is the offer to train and help : 1st ESCAPE citizen science workshop, Dec 2020 : https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/21939/timetable (was recorded). A 2nd workshop is expected ~ 1 year later.
Dark Matter, data & neutrinos :
CERN neutrino platform research program : https://home.cern/science/experiments/cern-neutrino-platform
Proto-DUNE sees particle tracks : https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/first-particle-tracks-seen-prototype-international-neutrino and publishes a first paper https://news.fnal.gov/2020/12/dune-publishes-first-physics-results-from-prototype-detector/
DUNE scientists see tracks with dual phase technology https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dune-scientists-see-particle-tracks-with-dual-phase-technology
Preparing for data onslaught : https://news.fnal.gov/2020/05/dune-prepares-for-data-onslaught/
DUNE as seen from Escape : https://projectescape.eu/news/new-directions-distributed-computing-doma-and-escape