UW QuarkNet Cosmic Ray
July 30- Aug 1 2014
This is a three day workshop for high school teachers and students during which they receive training in the use of QuarkNet's cosmic ray muon detector (CRMD) and Cosmic eLab. The eLab provides an online environment in which students, working in a research group, experience the environment of scientific collaborations in a series of investigations into high-energy cosmic rays.
From start to finish this is a teacher-guided and student-led project. Each teacher could bring upto 4 students to join the program. This year we can support upto 6 teachers and 12 students.
During these 3 days will be dedicated to the Cosmic Ray Detector and e-Lab. These detectors are new to UW and are not made with CASA ( yellow scintillator) components. The e-Lab is where the cosmic data is uploaded and stored and from which data analysis will be performed on your collected data. This does not use LabView nor the UW generated analysis tools as was the case for the previous WALTA detectors. Robert S. Peterson (a.k.a. Bob) from Fermilab will lead you in the building and standing up the new detectors. You will also plateau ( optimize) the detector and use the data for analysis. You will even be able to construct an online poster!
Stipend support:
Apply Here: Teacher Application.html
Instruments prepared by participants:
Each group (two people) needs one laptop (MacOS preferred/Windows is fine)
Schedule: 9am~5pm
Parking: CENTRAL PLAZA GARAGE, LEVELS C2-C5 (note: The physics building is due south of the parking garage. The closest parking will be on the lowest level, C5, and will be near the exit ramp. Tell the attendant that you are in the QuarkNet Workshop.
Participants:
| School | Teacher | Student |
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| Liberty High School | Mark Buchli <BuchliM@issaquah.wednet.edu> (July 31 only) | Joel Tinsethe <fn_bassplayer@live.com> |
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Trevor Sytsma <tmsytsma@comcast.net> |
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Jenny Chen <chen.jenny713@gmail.com> |
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| Kelso High School | Rose Emanuel <astroemanuel@gmail.com> | n/a |
| Interlake High | Shem M Thompson <thompsonsh@bsd405.org> | Winston Wright <winstonwright88@gmail.com> (UW summer students) |
| Bellevue College Physics | Kevin Wheelock <kevin.wheelock@bellevuecollege.edu> (Aug 1 only) | n/a |
| Forest Ridge | Maritza Tavarez <mtavarez@forestridge.org> (July 30 onily) | n/a |
| Skyline High | n/a | Sudharsan Prabu <sudhuprabu@gmail.com> (UW summer students) |
| | July 30 (C520) | July 31 (B248) | Aug 1 (B248) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program | Cosmic Ray Muon Detector/eLab | ||
| Instructor | Bob Peterson <rspete@fnal.gov> | ||
| 9~12pm | Welcom/Intro/Cosmic eLab | Cosmic eLab | group reports |
| 11am lecture | Toby Burnett | Jeff Wilkes | |
Organizers/Contributors:
WorkshopPrelimsJun2014.doc
Other Resources
- Workshop photos
- VIDEO: Ring of Truth- Phillip Morrison (PBS)- Morrison's 1987 PBS series, THE RING OF TRUTH, where in the episode "Mapping" he drives along a longitude line from border to border, demonstrating *pre-modern navigation* using Eratosthenes’ method to find latitudes, and Cassini’s tables of Jupiter’s moons to find longitude.
- Compton Cosmic Ray Studies with Electroscopes -Arthur H. Compton's organization of expeditions in the early 1930s to measure cosmic ray fluxes with uniform instrumentation (electroscopes) at many sites in the US and around the world. This article details his journeys.