Aug 17- Aug 19 2015
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:
Each participant teacher can receive a stipend of $100/day and each participant student can receive a stipend of $64/day.
Apply Here: Teacher Application.html
Instruments prepared by participants:
Each group (two people) needs one laptop (MacOS preferred/Windows is fine)
Schedule: 9am~5pm
Location:
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kelso High School | Rose Emanuel <astroemanuel@gmail.com> - TBC | |
| Nathan Hale High | Zoë Bell <elementalzoe@gmail.com> Claire Kantner <clairedycat.kantner@gmail.com> |
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| TESLA STEM High | Peter Saxby <PSaxby@lwsd.org> | Ben Zabback <bzabback@gmail.com> JEREZ TERCEROS MAHECK <s-mjerez-terceros@lwsd.org> Meagan Lotz <meagan.lotz@gmail.com> Margo Nanneman <Mnanneman@outlook.com> |
| Bellevue College Physics | Kevin Wheelock <kevin.wheelock@bellevuecollege.edu> | |
| Interlake High | | Sunayana R <sunnyr2010@gmail.com> |
| Forest Ridge | Tavarez, Maritza <mtavarez@forestridge.org> | |
| | Aug 17 | Aug 18 | Aug 19 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program | Cosmic Ray Muon Detector/eLab; Instructor: Bob Peterson <rspete@fnal.gov> | ||
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| 9am | Shih-Chieh Hsu: Welcome/Intro | Cosmic eLab | Prof. Toby Burnett: gamma rays |
| 10am | Bob Peterson: CRMD overview | data-taking | group reports |
| 11am | Prof. Jeffrey Wilkes: galactic cosmic ray | Chunyang Ding:CRMD experiments | group reports |
| 1pm-5pm | CRMD assembly, plateau, calibration | data taking & analysis | workshop done by 12pm |
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- 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.