2017
Student abstract information for HS internships at WIPAC/UW–Madison
Vetal, a multimessenger online analysis tool Haley James and Elsa Forberger (West High School), Blake Gallay (Middleton High School) Amanda Nothem (Whitnall HS) Josh Wood and Sílvia Bravo (WIPAC) The purpose of our research was to develop an online tool to analyze pubic data sets from IceCube…
UW–Madison QuarkNet Center 2016-2017 Annual Report
QuarkNet efforts at UW–Madison are led by the Wisconsin IceCube Astrophysics Center (WIPAC). Prof. Justin Vandenbroucke (co-PI) and Dr. Sílvia Bravo (co-PI) work together with several researchers from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the Distributed Electronic Cosmic-ray Observatory (DECO), and…
Neutrino Oscillations at NOVA
Seamus Sweeney Saint Henry District High School Katheryn Slattery Oak Hills HS Dr Alex Sousa Mentor During my QuarkNet internship at UC, I chose to work on the neutrino experiment under Dr. Sousa. The purpose of my work was to run analysis on neutrino oscillations (namely identifying the best…
LHCb Analysis of Xi - → Lambda + Pi- + Pr channe
Alexandra Raborn Anderson High School Will Beckes Summit Country Day School Dr. Mike Sokoloff Mentor Xi- Pi+ Invariant Mass For my research, I analyzed a data set from the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment, specifically the Xi - → Lambda + Pi- + Pr…